Compliance

Beverly Enterprises has agreed to settle for $6.25 million claims that it caused its 401(k) plan to incur excessive fees.

A federal judge in Georgia has thrown out claims by 401(k) participants that Beazer Homes USA breached its fiduciary duties by offering company stock as an investment option...

A former Comcast Corp. employee is qualified to serve as a class representative in a stock-drop lawsuit against Comcast Corp., a federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled as he...

A federal court judge has certified as a class action a lawsuit against Wells Fargo over offering mutual funds from one of its affiliates as 401(k) plan investments.

A federal court has dismissed claims that PricewaterhouseCoopers knowingly participated in a violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) anti-cutback rule by allowing Bank of America...

Securities litigation declined significantly in 2009 compared with 2008, according to a study by accounting firm and consultant PricewaterhouseCoopers.

A federal judge in West Virginia has ruled that lawyers simultaneously representing plan administrators and plan participants do not necessarily have a legal conflict of interest that would...

The Advisory Council on Employee Welfare and Pension Benefit Plans has called for the creation of a presidential commission to define a new national retirement policy and develop...

A federal district court recently denied class certification in a lawsuit relating to the rollover of funds from 401(k) plans nationwide for which Principal Life Insurance Company provided...

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is one of a number of Department of Labor (DoL) agencies participating in a new Web site aimed at making a variety...

The U.S. Supreme Court has sent a case contending that Ameriprise Financial’s fund fee structure violated the Investment Company Act back to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of...

The Internal Revenue Service has ruled that the 60-day rollover requirement is not applicable to a plan distribution check made payable to a second plan's sponsor.

The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal appellate court to take another look at its ruling that mutual fund managers can only be held liable for charging...

A federal court has dismissed claims by employees of KV Pharmaceutical Co. that the company breached its fiduciary duties by continuing to offer company stock in the its...

Three female financial advisers have filed a lawsuit charging gender discrimination at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

The American Society for Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA) has requested transitional relief for 501(c)(3) organizations offering 403(b) plans that have found themselves inadvertently subject to Title I...

Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis has filed an amicus brief asking the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn a trial court's dismissal of a class...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced a distribution of nearly $185 million to more than 800 mutual funds that were affected by illegal market timing by...

The value and number of securities class-action settlements increased in 2009 from 2008, according to "Securities Class Action Settlements: 2009 Review and Analysis," an annual report by Cornerstone...

The ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC), joined by the American Benefits Council, have filed a friend of the court brief urging the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to...