On December 5, 2024, the District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina finalized a $3.5 million settlement against IQVIA Inc. (“IQVIA”), a healthcare technology company, resolving allegations that it mismanaged its $1.13 billion IQVIA 401(k) Plan (“Plan”). The class action lawsuit, brought on behalf of the Plan and approximately 9,000 employees, alleged breaches of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”). Plaintiffs Darya Dearing, Janice…
On December 4, 2024, Plaintiffs Lawanda Lasha House Johnson, Rebecca A. Rice, and Shalamar Curtis (“Plaintiffs”) filed an appeal with the Third Circuit on behalf of Quest Diagnostic Inc. (“Quest”) employees to revisit their lawsuit alleging mismanagement of the Profit Sharing Plan of Quest Diagnostics (“Plan”). The proposed class, comprising of current and former employees, claims the District Court prematurely ruled in Quest’s favor without properly addressing significant factual disputes…
On October 4, 2024, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in a class-action lawsuit filed by employees of Cornell University (“Cornell”), alleging mismanagement of their retirement funds. The case presents an opportunity for the Court to address a Circuit split concerning the elements required to bring a “prohibited transactions” claim under ERISA. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) is the federal law governing private industry retirement plans, with…
On September 5, 2024, Judge James K. Bredar of a Maryland federal court approved an $11.8 million settlement reached in a class action lawsuit against MedStar Health, Inc. (“MedStar”), the Board of Directors of MedStar Health, Inc. (“Board”), and the MedStar Health, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan Committee (“Committee” and collectively, “Defendants”). The settlement resolves allegations that MedStar mismanaged the MedStar Health, Inc. Retirement Savings Plan (“Plan”), to the detriment of…
On July 16, 2024, Plaintiff Matthew Wehner filed an appellate brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit asking the Court to reverse the 2021 dismissal of his class action lawsuit against former employer Genentech, Inc. (“Genentech”) and the U.S. Roche DC Fiduciary Committee (“Committee,” and, collectively with Genentech, “Defendants”) regarding allegedly imprudent investments in the U.S. Roche 401(k) Savings Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan is…
On October 25, 2023, U.S. District Judge Andrew L. Carter, Jr. granted final approval of a $124.6 million settlement reached in a class action lawsuit against Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Inc., DST Systems, Inc., the Advisory Committee of the DST Systems, Inc. 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of DST Systems, Inc., and Robert D. Goldfarb (collectively, “DST Systems”). The settlement resolves allegations that…
On September 27, 2023, U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall granted final approval of a $15 million settlement reached in a class action lawsuit against Eversource Energy Services Company, the Board of Directors of Eversource Energy Services Company (“Board”), the Eversource Plan Administrative Committee (“Administrative Committee), and the Eversource Investment Management Committee (“Investment Committee”) (collectively, “Eversource”). The settlement resolves allegations that Eversource mismanaged the Eversource 401(k) Plan (“Plan”), to the…
On July 7, 2023, Plaintiff Melina Jacobs (“Plaintiff”) filed an unopposed motion for preliminary approval of class settlement to resolve claims she brought on behalf of herself, the Verizon Savings Plan for Management Employees (the “Plan”), and other participants of the Plan against Verizon Communication, Inc., (“Verizon”), Verizon Investment Management Corp, the Verizon Employee Benefits Committee, and Marc C. Reed, Matha Delehanty, Andrew H. Nebens, Connia Nelson, Shane Sanders, Robert…
On June 29, 2023, Yale New Haven Hospital (“Yale”) agreed to certify a class of over 26,000 current and former participants of the Yale-New Haven Hospital and Tax Exempt Affiliates Tax Sheltered Annuity Plan (the “Plan”) in a lawsuit against Yale-New Haven Hospital, Inc., the Board Of Trustees of Yale-New Haven Hospital, Inc., the System Investment Committee of Yale New Haven Health Service Corp. and System Affiliates, and the Retirement…
On July 5, 2023, the honorable Colleen McMahon of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York approved a $2.45 million settlement of class action claims alleging that Omnicom Group, Inc. (“Omnicom” or the “Company”) mismanaged its defined contribution retirement plan (the “Plan”) by subjecting Plan participants to excessive fees and risky, high-cost investment options. The class action began in 2020, when former Omnicom employees Carol…
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