Arnold v. Paredes, No. 3:23-CV-00545, __ F. Supp. 3d __, 2024 WL 356751 (M.D. Tenn. Jan. 31, 2024) (Judge Waverly D. Crenshaw, Jr.)
In an effort to prevent benefit plan participants from bringing class actions, or attempting to seek plan-wide relief, as permitted by ERISA under 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(2), administrators have increasingly inserted
D.L. Markham DDS, MSD, Inc. 401(k) Plan v. Variable Annuity Life Ins. Co., No. 22-20540, __ F.4th __, 2023 WL 8642231 (5th Cir. Dec. 14, 2023)(Before Circuit Judges Clement, Haynes, and Oldham)
This published decision from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals turned on the court’s resolution of two important ERISA issues: (1)
Cunningham v. Cornell Univ., Nos. 21-88-cv, 21-96-cv, 21-114-cv, __ F. 4th __, 2023 WL 7504142 (2d Cir. Nov. 14, 2023) (Before Circuit Judges Livingston, Kearse, and Park)
The case law governing excessive fee cases continues to develop in unpredictable ways, as this decision from the Second Circuit demonstrates.
A class of participants and