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After the flood of end-of-reporting-period decisions issued over the past several weeks, the tide has turned. This week we report on only eight cases. So relax and enjoy reading this week’s short but interesting selection of ERISA decisions, including one holding that 401(k) plan participants have adequately stated excessive fee claims, another reluctantly holding that

Navarro v. Wells Fargo & Co., No. 24-cv-3043 (LMP/DTS), 2025 WL 897717 (D. Minn. Mar. 24, 2025) (Judge Laura M. Provinzino)

We have been watching cases alleging that fiduciaries are mismanaging prescription drug benefit programs at Your ERISA Watch for several years now. These lawsuits contend that plan sponsors and fiduciaries of ERISA-governed healthcare

This week, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter, and I’ve heard it said that this January was the longest year on record. It seems ERISA winter is continuing for at least some plan participants, as several noteworthy decisions were issued this week which were unfavorable to ERISA plaintiffs. In Cutrone v. Allstate and