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This ERISA blog is designed for ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries. The goal is to help you understand your legal rights under an ERISA plan, including a 401k plan, a traditional pension plan or a group health plan–and to help you decide if you need to sue to enforce those rights.
IS MY 401k PLAN AT RISK?
This article provides a useful framework to help you spot risks embedded in a 401k plan caused by volatile financial...
FAIR VALUE HIERARCHY
Pension assets must be valued and reported at "fair value." The goal, of course, is to categorize each asset by its...
THE PENSION RISK CYCLE
The pension risk cycle shows the interplay between risk factors that critically affect a pension plan's value:...
WHAT HAPPENED AT SILICON VALLEY BANK?
What happened at Silicon Valley Bank? What caused a run on the bank's deposits? The short answer is...a liquidity...
BED BATH & BEYOND 401K SAVINGS PLAN REPORT CARD
The Bed Bath & Beyond 401k Savings Plan is a defined contribution plan with 19,268 plan participants and...
VISTEON INVESTMENT PLAN REPORT CARD
The Visteon Investment Plan is a defined contribution plan with 2,152 plan participants--all of whom are current or...
ASSET WRITE-DOWN: WHEN IS IT NECESSARY?
Plan fiduciaries are required to do an asset write-down of the fair value of an asset has has dropped. (See, Hughes v....
About this Blog
This ERISA blog is for ERISA plan participants and beneficiaries. The goal is to help you understand your legal rights under an ERISA plan, including a 401k plan, a traditional pension plan or group health plans. This ERISA blog also includes other areas we have cases in: vaccination mandate law and healthcare sharing law.
About the Author
Kevin McBride is an ERISA litigation lawyer in Los Angeles, with cases nationwide. He is admitted into three California US District Courts (Central, Southern, and Northern), the US District Court for the District of Utah, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals. McBride holds a BA degree in Economics from the University of Utah and a JD from the University of Utah College of Law, where he served on the Utah Law Review. He is a member of the Federalist Society and the Federal Bar Association.