News & Analysis as of July 23, 2025

Fiduciary Duty

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How ERISA Litigators Strengthen Plan Compliance and Risk Management: One-on-One with Jeb Gerth
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Cutting Costs With Employee Benefit Plans (Part 4 of 5) – Retirement Plan Costs
Cutting Costs With Employee Benefit Plans (Part 3 of 5) – Medical Benefit Costs
Cutting Costs With Employee Benefit Plans (Part 2 of 5) – Identifying Potential Targets
Cutting Costs With Employee Benefit Plans (Part 1 of 5) – Using Benefit Plans to Save Money
CARES Act – Retirement Plan Distributions and Loans: Troutman Sanders and Pepper Hamilton COVID-19 Issues for Employers Podcast Series
Blakes Continuity Podcast: COVID-19: The Regulatory Impact on Pensions
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Benefits Companion - Plan Administrators’ 2019 Year-End Checklist

An Emerging Trend in ERISA Class Action Litigation: 401(k) Forfeiture Suits

Holland & Knight LLP on 1/24/2025

There has been a recent uptick in ERISA class actions challenging the use of 401(k) plan forfeitures. Forfeitures are employer contributions that participants forfeit when they leave employment before those contributions vest...more

Department Of Labor Audits Are Focusing On Plan Procedures For Locating Missing Vested Participants

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on 4/21/2016

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has increased its examinations of the procedures of defined benefit and defined contribution retirement plans for locating and paying out benefits to terminated vested participants whom the...more

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An Emerging Trend in ERISA Class Action Litigation: 401(k) Forfeiture Suits

Department Of Labor Audits Are Focusing On Plan Procedures For Locating Missing Vested Participants

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