Legal

The DOL could be sending its finalized fiduciary rule to the Office of Management and Budget as early as this week. The timing of when the OMB receives the rule has significant consequence.

A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Empower Retirement earned disproportionate profits from revenue-sharing agreements.

The Supreme Court will not consider Smith vs. AEGON Companies Pension Plan, a case that called into question the viability of a venue selection provision in a retirement plan document.

States are worried about liability with state-run retirement plans--in spite of the proposed DOL safe harbor. Now critics are attacking the safe harbor proposal. Here's why.

Department of Labor won a judgement to restore $1.3 million to plan participants at one now-defunct company and filed suit in 4 other cases on behalf of workers.

Once again a stock-drop claim against fiduciaries of JP Morgans 401(k) plan has been dismissed.