Bank of America Corp.'s investment management unit won a court order clarifying that an incentive compensation program ...

In late October 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in Romano v. Hancock Life Insurance ...

Legal experts said there have been a growing number of legal cases against health insurers involving an obscure and ...

A former Clorox Co. employee advanced a proposed class action saying the company mismanaged its 401(k) plan by using ...

The writing: Aronowitz writes regularly for an Encore fiduciary law blog. As a blogger, Aronowitz has been a critic of plaintiffs' lawyers' wave of suits against ERISA plan fees. He asked in one ...

A federal judge agrees with Merrill that deferred compensation is a bonus used to reward employee loyalty rather than a retirement benefit protected by federal law.

"Everybody has biases in general, and certainly people have biases with respect to insurance," Schwartz said. "It's making ...

Whole Foods is the latest company slapped with a class action lawsuit accusing it of discriminating against employees who smoke, in violation of the Employment Retirement Income Security Act, known as ...

Three Democrats — Sen. Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, Sen. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia — ...

The Pennsylvania utility PPL has agreed to pay $8.2 million to settle claims by participants in four defined contribution ...

[4] The intersection of securities laws and ERISA laws are overlayed with general government-enforcement policies that should be considered in a nuanced manner when acting on behalf of retirement ...