Legal

Workers suing over Kentucky's public pension shortfall allege firms and officials breached fiduciary duties by using high-risk, high-fee investments that yielded lackluster returns.

MetLife has hired a law firm to help it track down pension beneficiaries after the company came under investigation for failing to locate possibly thousands of them owed payments.

For the past two years federal regulators have issued subpoenas and scrutinized relationships between drug companies and the charities, which are supposed to operate independently from industry donors.

Since the fiduciary rule has been delayed, New York state is proposing a state law requiring sellers of life insurance and annuities to act in the best interest of clients.

Jerry Schlichter has won more than $330 million in settlements for 401(k) participants litigating complex ERISA cases against some of the countrys most powerful corporations. But a change may be coming to the world of ERISA claims.

A recent legal case hinged on how a fiduciary relationship affects the official time limit on when clients can sue their advisors. Here's what happened.