Labor Day 1974 came during a tumultous time in American politics, arriving just a few weeks after President Richard Nixon resigned amid the Watergate scandal. But lawmakers at the time were able to ...

A calendar to help plan fiduciaries track important due dates for their retirement plans, given annual updates and changes.

Workplace retirement plans are facing a growing wave of class action lawsuits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), pushing employers to evaluate the policies that dictate how 401 ...

In 1974, Congress transformed the American retirement system. By a unanimous vote in the Senate and a margin of 407-2 in the House, it passed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The goal was ...

Pooled employer plans could be the next big target in ERISA litigation, according to Jamie Fleckner, an ERISA defense attorney for Goodwin Procter LLP. For almost a quarter of a century, Jamie ...

Nearly 50 years ago, former President Gerald Ford put pen to paper on one of the bedrock federal laws governing employee benefits: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, commonly known as ERISA.

The cases summarized below highlight the DOL’s commitment to ‘a rigorous enforcement of the law’ and underscore the need for competent guidance on ERISA compliance. While proactive retirement plan ...

BENEFITS IN TAX-QUALIFIED RETIREMENT PLANS generally are protected from the creditors of plan participants and insulated from claims in bankruptcy. PLANS NOT PROTECTED FROM CREDITORS are those that ...

After the couple married, the HR operations manager allegedly confirmed the plaintiff was added as a beneficiary of the executive plan and that the information had been processed and was in the system ...