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IN RE: Meridian Funds Group Securities & Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) Litigation
Case Number:
1:09-md-02082
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Nature of Suit:
Multi Party Litigation:
Multi-district Litigation
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April 11, 2016
Meridian To Pay $6.1M To End Madoff Feeder Fund MDL
Meridian Capital Partners Inc. said it will pay $6.1 million to resolve multidistrict litigation brought by a pension fund accusing the hedge fund manager of imprudently investing in a doomed Bernie Madoff feeder fund, according to documents filed Monday in New York federal court.
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March 16, 2015
Meridian Ditches Claims In Madoff Feeder Fund Suit
A New York federal judge has dismissed a suit against Meridian Capital Partners Inc. and Ernst & Young LLP over losses from Bernard Madoff's Ponzi scheme, saying the middleman defendants were probably "genuinely deceived."
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March 27, 2014
Judge Threatens Sanctions In Tossing Meridian ERISA Suit
A New York federal judge tossed a lawsuit against Meridian Diversified Fund Management over losses in a retirement fund invested in Bernard L. Madoff's Ponzi scheme, saying he is considering sanctions against the plaintiffs for filing the suit despite having divested their assets in the fund.
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April 17, 2013
Pension Funds Lose Bid To Revive Madoff Feeder Claims
A New York federal judge on Tuesday declined to revive claims from a pair of consolidated securities and Employee Retirement Income Security Act class actions brought by a group of pension funds accusing two investment companies of negligently feeding money into Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.
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March 12, 2013
Meridian Says Class Action Doesn't Make ERISA Cut
Meridian Diversified Fund Management told a New York federal judge on Monday that a class action alleging that its hedge funds served as feeder funds for Bernard L. Madoff should be dismissed because the plaintiffs don't have standing under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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January 08, 2013
Judge Chops Suit Alleging Meridian Ran Madoff Feeder Funds
A New York federal judge on Monday tossed more than half of the claims lodged at Meridian Diversified Fund Management LLC and its units in a putative class action alleging that its hedge funds served as feeder funds for Bernard L. Madoff.
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August 31, 2011
Judge Rejects Objection To Meridian MDL Consolidation
A New York federal judge on Tuesday denied a request by derivative plaintiffs to have pretrial motions in their suit against Meridian Capital Partners Inc. over retirement funds' losses to Bernard L. Madoff separated from a securities class action against the company.
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February 16, 2011
Meridian Says It Was Madoff's Victim, Not Feeder Fund
Meridian Capital Partners Inc. has argued a consolidated class action brought by investors seeking to recover money invested with Bernard L. Madoff should be dismissed because the hedge fund company was itself a victim of the Ponzi scheme.