Republicans claimed the bill would reduce the number of cases that lack merit but force employers into costly settlements.

Pooled employer plans could be the next big target in ERISA litigation, according to Jamie Fleckner, an ERISA defense attorney for Goodwin Procter LLP. For almost a quarter of a century, Jamie ...

Eight former Labor Department officials are calling on lawmakers to reject legislation designed to limit the recent tsunami of ERISA litigation.

Members of the House Committee on Education & Workforce advanced the ERISA Litigation Reform Act to the full House of Representatives by a party-line vote.

At the latest NAPA Summit, a session led by Tom Kmak, the well-respected Founder and CEO of Fiduciary Benchmarks, and Tom Clark from the Wagner Law Group and formerly Schlichter Bogard seemed to ...

A breakdown of the Ninth Circuit’s decision in Platt v. Sodexo, S.A., which held (in litigation under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA)) that an employer/plan sponsor could ...

Schlichter Bogard has long led ERISA class actions, mainly against 401(k) plans. Recently, they filed lawsuits against companies like United Airlines over voluntary employee benefits, claiming these ...