ERISA's six-year statute of limitations cannot bar plaintiffs from recovering damages because "every breach of the (fiduciary's) obligation to review investments prudently and remove imprudent ones starts the running of a new limitations period."
That was the main argument made in court documents filed this week by the plaintiffs in the Tibble vs. Edison International case, the first involving excessive fees in 401(k)s to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
The case, filed in 2007, alleged that fiduciaries of Edison's 401(k) plan breached their duty to provide prudent investments by offering retail-class shares of six mutual funds as investment options when lower-cost institutional-class shares of those funds were available.
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Nick Thornton
Nick Thornton is a financial writer covering retirement and health care issues for BenefitsPRO and ALM Media. He greatly enjoys learning from the vast minds in the legal, academic, advisory and money management communities when covering the retirement space. He's also written on international marketing trends, financial institution risk management, defense and energy issues, the restaurant industry in New York City, surfing, cigars, rum, travel, and fishing. When not writing, he's pushing into some land or water.
