Compliance August 17th, 2022 Plaintiffs Firms Must Pay $1.5 Million for ‘Reckless’ Litigation A judge has determined that two law firms, Schneider Wallace Cottrell Konecky LLP and Schlichter Bogard & Denton LLP, are...
Compliance August 16th, 2022 Dover Corporation Faces ERISA Suit Over Managed Account Fees The proposed class action lawsuit challenges excessive managed account fees and the retention of Financial Engines, the managed account service...
Compliance August 15th, 2022 L Brands Settles ERISA Suit After Dismissal Motions Fail The plaintiffs in the case alleged various plan fiduciaries breached their duties under ERISA by allowing the payment of excessive...
Compliance August 15th, 2022 More TDF Underperformance ERISA Lawsuits Filed The new cases closely resemble a host of others filed in recent months that suggest fiduciary defendants selected underperforming target-date...
Compliance August 11th, 2022 Lawsuit Against Northern Trust Over TDFs Will Proceed The defendants’ motion to dismiss has been denied.
Compliance August 4th, 2022 Lawsuit Accuses Fiduciaries of Chasing Low Fees Without Regard to Performance Microsoft is the latest target in a string of lawsuits over the performance of a popular TDF suite.
Compliance August 3rd, 2022 The Most ‘Outrageous’ ERISA Complaints Yet Filed? One fiduciary insurance expert who has long been tracking ERISA litigation says a spate of new complaints filed in recent...
Compliance August 2nd, 2022 Booz Allen Hamilton, Others Face Passive TDF Performance Lawsuits Unlike many other ERISA lawsuits, the complaints suggest the plan fiduciaries in question should have considered more expensive target-date funds...
Compliance July 20th, 2022 Midsize Health System Latest to Face ERISA Challenge The complaint suggests that, as of the end of 2020, the 401(k) plan at issue had over $465 million in...
Compliance July 18th, 2022 Maryland Medical System Lawsuit Clears Dismissal The text of the ruling takes just 13 pages to note that the facts of the case, as pleaded, are...
Compliance July 13th, 2022 MEP Fee Lawsuit Reaches Settlement Case documents show the parties engaged in extensive negotiations before reaching a proposed $1.1 million settlement agreement.
Compliance July 1st, 2022 Kellogg Faces ERISA Managed Account Fee Complaint The new complaint also suggests the company and its retirement plan fiduciaries permitted the payment of excessive recordkeeping fees.
Compliance June 29th, 2022 Excessive Fee ERISA Complaint Targets Cook Group The large medical-device-manufacturing organization is facing familiar fiduciary breach allegations in federal court in Indiana.
Compliance June 24th, 2022 MITRE Corp. Faces Familiar ERISA Fiduciary Breach Allegations Yet another employer has been sued by plaintiffs represented by the law firm Capozzi Adler.
Compliance June 23rd, 2022 Olin Corp. Soundly Defeats ERISA Lawsuit The judge’s opinion sides firmly against the arguments made by the plaintiffs in the case, who are among the many...
Compliance June 22nd, 2022 6th Circuit Backs Defense in Fidelity Freedom Funds ERISA Suit One expert who works on the fiduciary insurance side of the retirement plan industry calls the appellate ruling ‘the best...
Compliance June 15th, 2022 What’s Been Learned From ERISA Case Proceedings While the prevalence of settlements in ERISA cases means fewer legal conclusions have been drawn by the courts than one...
Compliance June 13th, 2022 Cybersecurity Is Everyone’s Responsibility Retirement benefit plans have deep pockets—filled with both assets and sensitive information—so it only makes sense that they are a...
Compliance June 6th, 2022 IBM Pension Plan Faces Outdated Mortality Data Challenge The plaintiffs are seeking to remedy alleged failures by an IBM pension plan to pay joint and survivor annuity benefits...
Compliance June 1st, 2022 Capital One Financial Beats ERISA Suit The dismissal order grants the plaintiffs, who are represented by the law firm Capozzi Adler, two weeks to file an...