Legal

MetLife has hired a law firm to help it track down pension beneficiaries after the company came under investigation for failing to locate possibly thousands of them owed payments.

For the past two years federal regulators have issued subpoenas and scrutinized relationships between drug companies and the charities, which are supposed to operate independently from industry donors.

Jerry Schlichter has won more than $330 million in settlements for 401(k) participants litigating complex ERISA cases against some of the countrys most powerful corporations. But a change may be coming to the world of ERISA claims.

A recent legal case hinged on how a fiduciary relationship affects the official time limit on when clients can sue their advisors. Here's what happened.

Prudential was putting insurance beneficiary money in a bank account rather than paying a lump sum instead.

A cautionary tale for employers with IT departments: Don't give anyone the keys to the kingdom -- this worker sabotaged company computers with an electronic time bomb.