81 FR 21181 — Amendment to and Partial Revocation of Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 86-128 for Securities Transactions Involving Employee Benefit Plans and Broker-De… ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 8, 2016related by meaning
section 4975(a) and (b) of the Code, if such records are not maintained, or are not available for examination as required by paragraph (f) below; and (2) A prohibited transaction will not be deemed to have occurred if, due to circumstances beyond the control of the broker-dealer, reporting dealer, or bank, such record…
80 FR 22021 — Proposed Amendment to and Proposed Partial Revocation of Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 86-128 for Securities Transactions Involving Employee Benefit P… ERISAProposed Rules (FR)Proposed Apr 20, 2015related by meaning
atio = 1.47 × (1,400,000/10,509,091) = 0.196 = 19.6 percent.
Proposed Revocation of Parts I(b), I(c) and II(2) of PTE 75-1 and Restatement of PTE 75-1 The Department is proposing to revoke Parts I(b), I(c) and II(2) of PTE 75-1. In connection with the proposed revocation of Part II(2), the Department is republishing Pa…
88 FR 76032 — Proposed Amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemptions 75-1, 77-4, 80-83, 83-1, and 86-128 ERISAProposed Rules (FR)Proposed Nov 3, 2023related by meaning
ion under PTE 77-4. The Department requests comment on this proposed revocation, and also on how the remaining parts of PTE 75-1 Part II will be used. The Department is further proposing to revise the recordkeeping provisions of Section (e) of PTE 75-1, Part II. Section (e) currently provides that records demonstrating…
89 FR 43675 — Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2006-06 for Services Provided in Connection With the Termination of Abandoned Individual Account Plans ERISAFinal Rules (FR)May 17, 2024related by meaning
burden for this new condition because it is expected to be de minimis and included in other notices sent to the Department.
G. Paperwork Reduction Act In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)), the Department solicited comments concerning the information collection requireme…
87 FR 70753 — Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 2002-51 To Permit Certain Transactions Identified in the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program ERISAProposed Rules (FR)Proposed Nov 21, 2022related by meaning
he Department no longer believes that posting the notification is reasonably calculated to ensure that interested persons actually receive the notice. The Department has reviewed several notices to interested persons submitted to the applicable Regional Offices and found that some of them do not meet the applicable req…
90 FR 3667 — Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 2002-51 To Permit Certain Transactions Identified in the Voluntary Fiduciary Correction Program ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Jan 15, 2025related by meaning
mpliance aid, the Department is making the model notice available on its website in twelve non-English languages.
Notice Exception for Self-Correctors In light of the streamlined procedure for self-correction and the SCC's limitation to corrections when the amount of lost earnings is $1,000 or less, the proposed exempt…
81 FR 21139 — Amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 75-1, Part V, Exemptions From Prohibitions Respecting Certain Classes of Transactions Involving Employee Be… ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 8, 2016related by meaning
75(e)(1) of the Code are included within the scope of relief provided by PTE 75-1 because it was issued jointly by the Department and the Service.
See PTE 2002-13, 67 FR 9483 (March 1, 2002) (preamble discussion). For simplicity and consistency with the other new exemptions and amendments to other existing exemptions p…
81 FR 21147 — Amendment to and Partial Revocation of Prohibited Transaction Exemption (PTE) 84-24 for Certain Transactions Involving Insurance Agents and Brokers, Pension Co… ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 8, 2016related by meaning
upremacy when the two regimes cannot be harmonized or accommodated”).
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50.
See BancOklahoma Mortg. Corp.
v.
Capital Title Co., Inc., 194 F.3d 1089 (10th Cir. 1999) (stating that McCarran-Ferguson Act bars the application of a federal statute only if (1) the federal statute does not specifically relate…
ERISACourt RulingsAug 31, 2026
…edent”). Plaintiff contends that before her sister died of
cancer, she elected to receive her $676, 980.77 earned
pension benefits as a lump sum and designated Liu as her
beneficiary. Therefore, Plaintiff argues, she is entitled to the
decedent’s benefits under the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974 (“ERIS…
81 FR 21208 — Amendments to Class Exemptions 75-1, 77-4, 80-83 and 83-1 ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 8, 2016related by meaning
st that a reasonable person would conclude could affect the exercise of its best judgment as a fiduciary in rendering advice to the plan or IRA owner. For purposes of this section, a fiduciary acts in the “Best Interest” of the plan or IRA when the fiduciary acts with the care, skill, prudence, and diligence under the …
77 FR 74063 — Amendments to the Abandoned Plan Regulations ERISAProposed Rules (FR)Proposed Dec 12, 2012
…year 2010. Based on the foregoing, the Department estimates that approximately 330 plans covering 1,980 participants (330 plans × 6 participants per plan) would be terminated and wound up under the Abandoned Plan Program each year if the program remains unchanged.
89 FR 32346 — Amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemptions 75-1, 77-4, 80-83, 83-1, and 86-128 ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 25, 2024related by meaning
nd in its text, PTE 2020-02 has been broadly amended to encompass compensation for advice irrespective of the product recommended.
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6. ERISA section 408(a) and Code section 4975(c)(2), expressly permit the Department (through the Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1978) to grant “a conditional or uncondition…
89 FR 32260 — Amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 2020-02 ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 25, 2024related by meaning
ns
were made negligently or intentionally.”) (emphasis added);
see Mathews
v.
Chevron Corp.,
362 F.3d 1172, 1183 (9th Cir. 2004).
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37. 84 FR 33348, note 303. The Department observes that this requirement is also consistent with, for example, the requirement under section 206 of the Advisers Act, which …
89 FR 34106 — Definition of “Employer”-Association Health Plans ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 30, 2024
….2d 1367, 1371 (11th Cir. 1982) (emphasis added).
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83.
Meredith
v.
Time Ins. Co.,
980 F.2d 352, 358 (5th Cir. 1993);
id.
75 FR 8796 — Civil Penalties Under ERISA Section 502(c)(8) ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Feb 26, 2010related by meaning
ch sets forth additional circumstances in which the Service will automatically approve a request to revoke a section 204 election.
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4. An excise tax under Code section 4971(g)(4) generally applies, in addition to any penalty under ERISA section 502(c)(8), in the case of a failure to adopt a rehabilitat…
89 FR 32302 — Amendment to Prohibited Transaction Exemption 84-24 ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 25, 2024related by meaning
(2), (3); 29 U.S.C. 1108(a)(2), (3); Code section 4975(c)(2)(B), (C).
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32.
NAIC Model Regulation at section 5.I.
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33. NAIC Model Regulation at section 5.B.
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34.
NAIC Model Regulation at section 5.J.
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35.
See Staff Bulletin: Standards of Conduct for Bro…
84 FR 37508 — Definition of “Employer” Under Section 3(5) of ERISA-Association Retirement Plans and Other Multiple-Employer Plans ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Jul 31, 2019
… in determining what is meant by these oblique definitions of employer.”
Meredith
v.
Time Ins. Co.,
980 F.2d 352, 356 (5th Cir. 1993). The statutory lacunae have proven
( printed page 37511)
ERISADOL Technical ReleasesMar 18, 2011
…Insurance.consumers@arkansas.gov
CaliforniaCalifornia Department of Managed Health Care Help Center
980 9th Street, Suite 500
Sacramento, CA 95814
(888) 466-2219
www.healthhelp.ca.gov
helpline@dmhc.ca.gov
ColoradoNo program
ConnecticutConnecticut Office of the Healthcare Advocate
P.O. Box 1543
Hartford, CT 06144
(866) …
89 FR 32122 — Retirement Security Rule: Definition of an Investment Advice Fiduciary ERISAFinal Rules (FR)Apr 25, 2024
…vestment adviser
Insurance company
Robo-adviser
Non-bank trustee
Total
$2,057,340
$8,766,344
$9,124,980
$77,978
$11,047
$34,247
Per-Entity
$1,105
$1,105
$1,105
$1,105
$1,105
$1,105
Disclosure:
Total
$101,864
$846,560
$881,193
$6,509
$8,143
$4,820
Per-Entity
$55
$107
$107
$92
$814
$155
Rollover Documentation:
Total
$878…
88 FR 87968 — Definition of “Employer”-Association Health Plans ERISAProposed Rules (FR)Proposed Dec 20, 2023
….2d 1367, 1371 (11th Cir. 1982) (emphasis added).
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70.
Meredith
v.
Time Ins. Co., 980 F.2d 352, 358 (5th Cir. 1993);
id.
(“When the employee and employer are one and the same, there is little need to regulate plan administration. . . . It would appear axiomatic that the employee-employer relationship …