Austin, TXOn June 24, Whole Foods asked Judge Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas, Austin Division, to approve a $2 million settlement to end Winkelman v. Whole Foods Market, Inc.... Read more »
Philadelphia, PAOn June 10, the Cigna Group was hit with a new ERISA forfeiture lawsuit. In Adams v. the Cigna Group, participants in Cigna’s 401k plan allege that Cigna and its retirement... Read more »
San Jose, CAIntuit Inc. has agreed to pay $2 million to settle a class action ERISA lawsuit brought by participants in Intuit’s individual account 401k retirement plan. The settlement, approved by the... Read more »
San Francisco, CA On March 3, the Northern District of California denied The Clorox Company’s motion to dismiss an ERISA class action lawsuit that focuses on the company’s use of participant account forfeitures... Read more »
Washington, DC Sometimes the sheer procedural clutter of so many ERISA lawsuits obscures what is important. The U.S. Supreme Court’s April 17, 2025 holding in Cunningham v. Cornell University is one of those... Read more »
Minneapolis, MNOn December 13, UnitedHealth Group, Inc. agreed to settle Snyder v. UnitedHealth Group, which claims the company mishandled its 401k plan by “imprudently and disloyally” including the Wells Fargo Target Fund... Read more »
Fort Lauderdale, FLOn October 9, Nova Southeastern University agreed to settle a long-running lawsuit in which participants in the Nova University Defined Contribution Plan claimed that the school had mismanaged their retirement... Read more »
San Diego, CAOn September 24, the Southern District of California granted Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.’s motion to dismiss Konstantina Dimou’s ERISA lawsuit. Dimou v. Thermo Fisher Scientific claims that forfeited contributions should have... Read more »
Grand Rapids, MIOn July 28, a three-judge panel for the Sixth Circuit heard arguments in Bradley Fleming v. Kellogg Co. a lawsuit that addresses, once again, the question of whether claims of... Read more »
Memphis, TNOn August 20, the Sixth Circuit refused to force participants in two related 401k plans, the “DRiV Plan” and the “Tenneco Plan,” to arbitrate claims that the plans wasted workers’ retirement... Read more »