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The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday revived a class action by 28,000 Cornell University employees accusing the Ivy League ...
Notwithstanding its mounting backlog, the U.S. Supreme Court resolved only one case today, an unsurprising unanimous decision ...
The nine justices reversed previous decisions by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, New York, and a U.S. federal district ...
In a unanimous decision, the justices take a worker-friendly approach on behalf of 28,000 employees who accused the ...
September 2, 1974, Gerald Ford signed the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) into law. ERISA governs the ...
In a unanimous decision, the nation’s highest court has made a clear delineation as to who bears the burden of proof in ERISA litigation — and it’s not likely to slow the current pace.
As an asset manager, you may be familiar with the regulatory issues that come into play when a fund permits investments from ...
Cunningham v. Cornell University will not go into the history books as one of the most important 30 decisions of the 2024-25 term. The case involves a technical problem about pleading standards under ...
The telecom giant is one of the latest employers to get sued for using forfeited plan funds from departed employees to pay ...
Asserting that a recent excessive fee suit is “just one of many in a wave of ERISA class-action complaints designed to extract costly settlements…” — the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and a couple of ...
While the court does not discount class counsel’s hard work and effort to obtain an immediate and guaranteed benefit to ...
ESOP practice leader at PKF O'Connor Davies. He has more than 30 years of experience working with Fortune 500 corporations, private businesses and investment banks in all areas of employee benefits, ...