A published Fourth Circuit decision holds that Merrill Lynch's WealthChoice Award program — a deferred cash bonus paid to select high-performing financial advisors after eight years of continued employment — is a bonu...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Franklin Resources' motion to dismiss breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims, allowing plaintiffs to proceed with allegations that the company loaded the...
The Western District of Tennessee has granted preliminary approval of a $44.4 million class action settlement between plaintiffs and Symetra Life Insurance Company, resolving claims that the insurer facilitated the mi...
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California denied Franklin Resources' motion to dismiss breach-of-fiduciary-duty claims, allowing plaintiffs to proceed with allegations that the company loaded the Franklin Templeton 401(k) Retirement Pl...
A published Fourth Circuit decision holds that Merrill Lynch's WealthChoice Award program — a deferred cash bonus paid to select high-performing financial advisors after eight years of continued employment — is a bonus plan exempt from ERISA, not a covered...
A federal judge has preliminarily approved a $44.4 million settlement between AME Church clergy plaintiffs and Symetra Life Insurance Company, resolving claims that Symetra helped facilitate a two-decade scheme that drained roughly $90 million from the chur...
The Western District of Tennessee has granted preliminary approval of a $44.4 million class action settlement between plaintiffs and Symetra Life Insurance Company, resolving claims that the insurer facilitated the misappropriation of tens of millions of do...
A federal judge ruled that a former Medtronic employee failed to show her debilitating fatigue and cognitive dysfunction were caused by her physical conditions rather than her mental health diagnoses, ending her bid for long-term disability benefits beyond...
Wendy Woehrmann’s appeal of a Social Security Disability Insurance denial is reversed and remanded by the Eastern District of Missouri because the Administrative Law Judge failed to properly explain the supportability and consistency of medical opinion evid...
A federal judge in Maryland has denied a motion to dismiss brought by construction employers accused of failing to pay required contributions to multiemployer pension and welfare funds, allowing the funds’ claims for delinquent payments, liquidated damages,...
A federal magistrate judge in Maryland reversed the Social Security Administration’s denial of disability benefits for a claimant with chronic depression, holding that the Administrative Law Judge improperly used normal objective medical findings to discoun...
A Middle District of Pennsylvania magistrate judge remanded a Social Security disability claim after holding that the Administrative Law Judge failed to incorporate or explain a specific one-to-two-step task limitation from a medical opinion the ALJ deemed...