ERISA Insights https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Courts Address Participant Standing to Challenge Fees and Payments Received by Group Health Plan Service Providers Federal Judge Nixes Interlocutory Appeal to Clarify Pleading Standards for ERISA Excessive Fee Claims Tenth Circuit Holds Oklahoma’s Regulation of Pharmacy Benefit Managers Preempted by ERISA The Eighth Circuit’s “Meaningful Benchmark” Requirement for 401(k) “Excessive Fee” Lawsuits Continues to Generate Dismissals Thoughts for U.S. Employers Sending Employees Overseas Sanctions Hit U.S. Pension Plans ERISA Excessive Fee Cases Continue to Survive Dismissal Motions at a High Rate Thoughts About ESG Investing in Your 401(k) Plan: The Problem Is Choice (Pop Culture Nod to the Matrix) Supreme Court Give Plaintiffs a Narrow Win in 401(k) Fee Case Actuarial Equivalence Fight Goes to the First Circuit DOL Warns 401(k) Plan Fiduciaries about Cryptocurrency Investments Court Allows Antitrust Lawsuit by UnitedHealth to go Forward The Fourth Circuit Affirms No Breach of ERISA’s Fiduciary Duties for “Cross-Selling” Efforts Kraft Heinz Sues Aetna, Raising Novel ERISA Breach of Fiduciary Duty Lawsuit Yet Another ERISA “Excessive Fee” Lawsuit Is Tossed in the Eighth Circuit Employers and Providers Fight over COVID-19 Testing Costs Excessive Recordkeeping Fee Claim Squeaks by a Motion to Dismiss District Court Issues First Post-Northwestern University 401(k) “Fee” Decision Managed Accounts in 401(k) Plans: Their Value and Their Dangers Court Allows Claim for Multiemployer Pension Default Based Upon Failure to Provide Information The “War” Between Out-of-Network Providers and Insurers Spreads into COVID-19 Territory Some Thoughts about How to Manage Plan Investments During a Time of Market Volatility Class Action Counsels’ Reach Expands to “Fee” Claims against Small and Mid-Size 401(k) Plans Will the Supreme Court Review Standards for Pleading 401(k) Fiduciary Breach Cases? The Seventh Circuit Opines on What a Plaintiff Must Plead for a 401(k) Imprudence Claim to Go Forward The Supreme Court Provides Guidance on ERISA’s “Actual Knowledge” Statute of Limitations Circuit Courts Define when a Stable Value Fund Issuer’s Control over Credited Interest Rate Makes It an ERISA Fiduciary The Supreme Court (Again) Addresses Fiduciary Standards for Company Stock Investments DOL Offers Guidance to Retirement Plan Sponsors Ninth Circuit Opens Door to Claims by Out of Network Providers Defendants Score Two Victories in 401(k) Fee Cases Eighth Circuit Defines How Summary Judgment Procedures Apply to ERISA Benefit Claim Reviews Supreme Court Weighs Pleading Standards in Defined Contribution “Fee” Cases Courts Continue to Adopt the Eighth Circuit’s “Meaningful Benchmark” Requirement for 401(k) Lawsuits Based on Fund Performance or Fees Wit Is Flipped: The Ninth Circuit Reverses Major ERISA Decision Ninth Circuit Dismisses Claim on Behalf of Welfare Benefit Plan for Lack of Article III Standing Cross-Plan Offset Claims Dismissed Against UnitedHealth for Lack of Constitutional Standing Court Rejects Propose Class in Lawsuit Alleging that CIGNA Overcharged for Prescription Drugs Court Certifies a Class of Group Heath Plans in Claims that Generic Drugs were Overpriced. Principal Life Wins Trial Decision on Variable Annuity Claims State Law Claims Based Upon Failure to Properly Value ESOP Stock Succeed Ninth Circuit Confirms Dismissal of “Company Stock” Claims Against Edison International Sixth Circuit Revives Lawsuit Against Detroit Edison Co. Second Circuit Rejects Arbitration of ERISA Claims First Circuit Finds that Fidelity Was Not a Fiduciary When Negotiating and Charging a Fee to Mutual Funds Raytheon Agrees to Settle ERISA Mortality Table Litigation for $59 Million Intel 401(k) Plan Fiduciaries Win Lawsuit Challenging Alternative Investments Eighth Circuit Tosses Fiduciary Breach Claims Against Health Plan Service Providers California Court Refuses to Decertify Class Action Based on Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Wit Splitting with Other Circuit Courts, the Ninth Circuit Revives an ERISA Prohibited Transaction Claim