In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court held a plan maintained by a religiously affiliated organization qualifies as a church plan, regardless of who established it.

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A federal judge Monday denied a motion to dismiss in a lawsuit against Chimes International Ltd. alleging the Baltimore-based nonprofit breached its fiduciary duty as overseer of its employee health plan. The amended complaint, filed in June by the U.S. Department of ...

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Chimes International Ltd., a Baltimore-based nonprofit that provides job training to the disabled, breached its fiduciary duty as overseer of its employee health plan, which was a cash cow for the plan’s administrators and an inappropriate source of donations to Chimes, the federal government alleges in a lawsuit.

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Seeking to resolve a rather lopsided circuit split, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court seem poised to support a requirement that employees alleging breach of fiduciary duty overcome a pleading-stage presumption that employee stock plan fiduciaries acted with prudence.

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A federal court should not have applied equitable principles to rewrite contractual language in an ERISA plan it deemed unfair, the Supreme Court has ruled.

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When an accident victim’s medical expenses are covered by an ERISA plan, and the victim goes on to win a tort suit for his injuries, who foots the attorney’s bill?

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Employers cannot get out of paying attorneys’ fees in a wage payment dispute by claiming they can’t afford it, the Court of Special Appeals has held. The decision revived the fee request of Daniel J. Barufaldi, the former executive director ...

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Robert C. Harnett has joined Silberstein Insurance Group as vice president. Harnett will be responsible for management and delivery of SIG’s products and services to middle- and large-market clients. Harnett holds licenses for all insurance coverage in multiple states and ...

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The Department of Labor says it will re-propose a rule to revise the definition of fiduciary in regulations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The rule would amend a 1975 regulation defining when a person providing investment advice becomes ...

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MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS Civil Procedure, Joinder: The trial court, in a prior wrongful death action brought by decedent’s widow and children from second marriage, could not approve a settlement without the inclusion of decedent’s children from first marriage as ...

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