Mass. ERISA Pension Plan Litigation $59 Mil Settlement
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 For many years there has been concern that when pension plans collapse, it may in part be attributable to the failure of employer plan sponsors to conduct the selection and monitoring of actuarial assumptions in a prudent, objective manner. This is because the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) only requires the use of “reasonable” assumptions and “actuarial equivalents”; and because these terms are not defined in the statute, they could mean different things to different people, particularly to different actuaries. Most recently,...
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