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The Ninth Circuit concluded that a plan fiduciary abused its discretion in denying survival benefits to a pension plan participant's domestic partner.

SEC commissioner Michael Piwowar filed a public comment letter with the Department of Labor that criticized the Obama-era Fiduciary Rule governing retirement investment advisers.

In the past month, plaintiffs have filed two separate lawsuits – Dimou v. Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. and Rodriguez v. Intuit, Inc – accusing plan fiduciaries...

On this episode of Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion, host Brydon DeWitt is joined by Zan Gormley, a partner in Williams Mullen's Litigation Section

President Obama vetoed a Congressional resolution of disapproval (H.J. Res. 88) that would prevent the Department of Labor's implementation of the final rule...

The case is Viad Corp. Supplemental Pension Plan v. Nasi, No. 2014 WL 6984443 (9th Cir. Dec. 11, 2014).

Thanks to a provision first introduced by the Pension Protection Act of 2006, an individual who has attained age 70-1/2 may make a tax-free donation of up to $100,000 directly from his or her IRA to a qualified charity.

July 1 is the deadline by which certain providers of services to ERISA-covered retirement plans must provide fee and other information to these plans under a new Department of Labor (DOL) disclosure requirement.

A New Jersey federal district court held (in an unpublished opinion) that a former plan participant’s same-sex spouse who never enrolled in the benefit plan did not have standing to assert a claim.

In keeping with the theme of legal developments aimed at improving retirement preparedness, on May 23, the House of Representatives passed the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement

On July 23, 2014, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions unanimously approved S. 2511.

Joyce Carroll retired from her job working for the City of San Francisco in 2000 due to rheumatoid arthritis; since that time, Carroll received monthly disability retirement benefit payments.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the Department of Labor (DOL) conduct different types of benefit plan audits, such as retirement plans and health and welfare plans, and for various reasons.

On May 18, 2009, the United States Supreme Court ruled that an employer did not discriminate on the basis of sex or pregnancy when its calculation of pension benefits gave less retirement credit for pregnancy leave that occurred before April 29, 1979, than it did for disability leave.

Court cases challenging the actions of Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciaries have continued unabated since the scandal of Enron in 2002.

Michael Sweet was quoted in The Orange County Register article "The Engine of Pension Change?"

Senate Republicans are seeking to have President Trump's cabinet filled as quickly as possible, and to that end, Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) has told senators there will be no weekends off or recesses...