ERISA Class Action Watch

The National Consumer Law Center has filed an interesting (and possibly procedurally defective) complaint against UNUM Life Insurance in Massachusetts. The core allegation is that instead of paying lump-sum death benefits as required by its policies, UNUM instead gave beneficiaries a check book that drew on an account maintained by UNUM. UNUM thus profited by keeping the […]

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The RadioShack 401(k) Plan and ESOP are being sued in the Northern District of Texas. A brief look at the complaint shows that this is primarily a company stock drop suit. These suits are becoming as routine as shareholder derivatives following a stock decline, but two things stand out in this complaint:

Although RadioShack stock has […]

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A complaint filed in the WD NC alleges that FedEx deprived North Carolina drivers of benefits by wrongfully classifying them as independent contractors. 

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Keller Rohrback and others have filed a nationwide class action in the E.D. Penn. against Wal-Mart. The complaint builds on allegations (and a jury verdict in Pennsylvania) that Wal-Mart has failed to compensate employees for all of the hours they worked. The idea is that because Wal-Mart makes profit-sharing contributions to 401(k) plan participants’ accounts based on their […]

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