Tag: ERISA

When it comes to qualified retirement plans, there are three kinds of people: people who are fiduciaries and know it, people who aren’t fiduciaries and know...

A woman accused of stealing from a co-worker’s 401(k) account has been sentenced to a one-year jail term.

Wachovia Bank did not violate the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) when it sent a form letter to investors notifying them of a fund's merger with another...

U.S. Supreme Court justices have agreed to consider an appeal of a case involving the method used by the Xerox Corp. pension plan to figure out how much...

The U.S. Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) is taking its compliance seminar series to Atlanta.

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the sponsor of a master plan to strike a clause in its plan documents relieving the trustee of the duty to...

The owner of defunct Concord, North Carolina, sign firm has been ordered by a federal judge to pay $57,089 to the company’s 401(k) and health plans.

Plan fiduciaries looking for insights about their responsibilities can now get that information from the Labor Department without leaving their desks.