Seventh Circuit Affirms That ERISA Plan Sponsors Do Not Act As Participants’ Fiduciaries And Must Follow The Terms Of The Plan As Written

By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Jeffrey R. Zohn Duane Morris Takeaways: More than 10 years after Plaintiffs filed suit in Carlson et al. v. Northrop Grumman Severance Plan et al., No. 22-1764, 2023 WL 3299703 (7th Cir. May 8, 2023), the Seventh Circuit put to rest the idea that a sponsor of an ERISA …

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