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District Court Rejection of Challenges to Verizon Annuity Purchase Supports De-Risking Strategy (PDF)
Groom Law Group Link to more items from this source
Apr. 18, 2014

"[T]he court simply reiterated its prior ruling that Verizon was not acting as fiduciary when it amended the plan to direct the annuity purchase because 'the disputed decisions involve Verizon's role as settlor, not Plan fiduciary' ... [T]he court rejected the claim that Verizon's decision to purchase annuities from a single provider, Prudential, the day after it amended the plan to provide for it, was a fiduciary breach.... [T]he court stated, 'at bottom, plaintiffs are disagreeing with the rights of a settlor under ERISA, and such a disagreement must be addressed to Congress through requests for legislative changes to ERISA, not through litigation that complains of the decisions that ERISA empowers a plan sponsor as settlor to make.' " [Lee v. Verizon Communications, No. 3:12-CV-4834-D (N.D. Tex. Apr. 11, 2014)]

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