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  1. Plan Fiduciaries Cannot Use ERISA Section 404(c) to Defend Against Claims Regarding Employer Stock Fund
    From the April 16, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    This employer sponsored seven retirement plans, all of which allowed plan participants to invest in an employer stock fund. After participants suffered substantial losses due to alleged accounting fraud and other improprieties, a group of plan participants brought a class ...
    [In re Tyco Int'l Ltd. Multidistrict Litig., 2009 WL 921147 (D.N.H. 2009)]
  2. Employees Discharged Due to Plant Closing May Not Proceed With ERISA Section 510 Interference Claim
    From the April 09, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    A group of former employees claimed that their employer violated ERISA Section 510 when it closed the plant where they worked and discharged them to prevent their retirement eligibility. (ERISA Section 510 makes it unlawful to discharge or otherwise discriminate ...
    [Crawford v. TRW Automotive U.S. LLC, 2009 WL 818952 (6th Cir. 2009)]
  3. Employer Must Provide Claims Administrator's Internal Guidelines Relied on in Denying Participant's Claim
    From the March 19, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The participant in this case sued her former employer and the third-party claims administrator of the employer’s self-insured health plan, alleging, among other things, that they failed to timely respond to her multiple written requests for ...
    [Mondry v. American Family Mut. Ins. Co., 2009 WL 539861 (7th Cir. 2009)]
  4. Trustee's Delay in Filing Breach of Fiduciary Duty Claim Over Ponzi Scheme Investment Results in Dismissal
    From the March 19, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    ERISA generally requires that fiduciary breach claims be brought within six years after the breach occurs or within three years after the claimant has actual knowledge of the breach, whichever is earlier. In this case, the 401(k) plan of ...
    [Browning v. Tiger's Eye Benefits Consulting, 2009 WL 497391 (4th Cir. 2009)]
  5. Seventh Circuit: Non-Disclosure of Revenue Sharing Did Not Violate ERISA
    From the March 05, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The Seventh Circuit has affirmed a trial court’s finding that there is no existing requirement under ERISA to disclose revenue sharing information to plan participants (see our article at http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/401k/CourtCases/19072 (Premium ...
    [Hecker v. Deere & Co., 2009 WL 331285 (7th Cir. 2009)]
  6. Employer and Independent Fiduciary "Unquestionably" Satisfied Their Fiduciary Duties in Sales of Employer Stock
    From the February 19, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The employer in this case offered an employer stock fund as an investment option under its 401(k) plan. After it began Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings (to limit its potentially massive liability due to asbestos-related personal injury suits), the ...
    [Bunch v. W.R. Grace & Co., 2009 WL 211054 (1st Cir. 2009)]
  7. Plan Administrator Properly Followed Plan Documents and Paid Ex-Spouse Despite Divorce Decree Waiver
    From the January 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The Supreme Court agreed to hear this case to resolve a split among Circuit and State Supreme Courts over whether an ex-spouse’s waiver of benefits in a divorce decree that is not a QDRO can divest the ...
    [Kennedy v. Plan Adm'r for DuPont Sav. and Inv. Plan, 2009 WL 160440 (U.S. Supr. Ct. 2009)]
  8. QDRO Awarding Pension Benefits to Domestic Partner in "Quasi-Marital Relationship" Upheld on Appeal
    From the January 29, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The participant in this case and his long-term partner never legally married but lived together in a “quasi-marital” relationship for over 30 years. When they separated, the partner obtained a state court order assigning her 50% ...
    [Owens v. Auto. Machinists Pension Trust, 2009 WL 57041 (9th Cir. 2009)]
  9. State Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Determine Whether a DRO Is a QDRO
    From the January 22, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    The participant in this case and his first spouse (the alternate payee) divorced. The participant later remarried, retired, and elected to receive his benefits as a joint and survivor annuity with his second spouse as the survivor annuitant. Years after ...
    [Langston v. Wilson McShane Corp., 2008 WL 5136339 (Minn. Ct. App. 2008)]
  10. Two More Federal Circuits Consider Impact of Glenn Decision on Standard of Review
    From the January 08, 2009 EBIA Weekly
    Two more circuit courts have reevaluated their standard of judicial review applicable in ERISA benefits litigation in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Glenn decision. (See our articles at http://www.ebia.com/WeeklyArchives/ERISA/CourtCases/19423 ...
    [Champion v. Black & Decker Inc., 2008 WL 5377692 (4th Cir. 2008); McCauley v. First Unum Life Ins. Co., 2008 WL 5377680 (2d Cir. 2008)]

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