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[Podcast]: Rep and Warranty Insurance and Executive Compensation and Employees Benefits

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They also focus on certain aspects of this insurance product as it relates to executive compensation and employee benefits matters. Listen to the podcast David Teigman: Hello and welcome to The Proskauer Benefits Brief: Legal Insight on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation.

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A Light in the Dark: Seventh Circuit Helps Clarify New Pleading Standards for 401(k) Fee Cases

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

A recent US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit case supplies answers to many questions left open in 401(k) fee litigation cases after the US Supreme Court’s ruling earlier this year in Hughes v. Northwestern University. Specifically, to survive a motion to dismiss in the Seventh Circuit, the recent ruling in Albert v.

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IRS Announces Delay of Implementation of SECURE 2.0 Act’s Roth Catch-up Contribution Provision for Two Years

Benefits Notes

Act of 2022 (“SECURE 2.0”) required that effective as of January 1, 2024 , participants in 401(k) plans, 403(b) plans, or governmental 457(b) plans, who were age 50 or older and whose Social Security wages for the previous year exceed $145,000 (indexed), only be permitted to make catch-up contributions under such plans on a Roth (after-tax) basis.

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ERISA Litigation: What Have We Learned?

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

Earlier this spring, McDermott Partner Erin Turley delivered a presentation about the impacts of recent Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) litigation. appeared first on EMPLOYEE BENEFITS BLOG. The post ERISA Litigation: What Have We Learned?

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[Podcast]: DOL’s 2022 Final ESG Rules

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Listen to the podcast Tanusha Yarlagadda: Hello and welcome to The Proskauer Benefits Brief: Legal Insights on Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation. Ira, can you highlight for us the changes under the final rules affecting participant-directed plans, such as a typical 401(k) or 403(b) plan?

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A Conjunction is Worth Thousands of Dollars: Recent Case Highlights Significance of “And” vs. “Or”

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

which was an executive contract dispute case in Delaware that hinged on a single word: “ and.”. You do not need a Lexis or Westlaw subscription to know that major cases and significant judgments have sometimes hinged on the meaning of a single word, or the placement of a single Oxford comma. Waystar, Inc.,

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DOL’s Latest ESG Proposal: The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

Department of Labor’s Employee Benefits Security Administration (the “DOL”) published in the Federal Register a new proposed regulation (the “Proposed Rules”) [1] on fiduciary responsibility in selecting ERISA plan investments and exercising shareholder rights (proxy voting). On October 14, 2021, the U.S. Background.

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