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Hecker and the Development of the Law on the 404(c) Defense
Stephen Rosenberg, The Wagner Law Group [Guidance Overview] Apr. 14, 2009 Excerpt: One of the Seventh Circuit's most interesting tricks in its recent decision in Hecker was the extraordinary breadth it gave to the 404(c) defense. This was an aspect of the decision that raised a lot of hackles, and I noted in my own post on the case that I doubted this was the last word on the subject and that it would be interesting to see how the case law developed as other courts tackled this question. Well, here's a decision from a week or so ago out of the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire taking a much narrower approach in interpreting the amount of protection granted to fiduciaries by section 404(c), finding that the defense does not apply to 'a fiduciary's designation of the investment options that are available to plan participants.' |
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