March 31, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has trimmed class claims from a suit alleging payroll processing company ADP mismanaged employees' retirement savings, while also granting a partial win to the plaintiffs keeping claims over payments to an ADP subsidiary's plan alive.
February 13, 2025
More than 50,000 ADP 401(k) plan participants scored class certification Thursday in their lawsuit accusing the company of retaining poorly performing investments and overcharging them for recordkeeping fees, after a New Jersey federal judge found their claims are typical since they stem from the same alleged fiduciary duty breach by ADP.
May 13, 2024
ADP said a class of 50,000 retirement plan participants shouldn't be allowed to bring their claims that the company mismanaged their $7.8 billion retirement plan before a jury, arguing that because they're not asking for money damages, they're not owed a trial in the case.
April 10, 2024
ADP agreed to the certification of a class numbering more than 50,000 in a suit alleging the company failed to negotiate lower costs for its $7.8 billion employee retirement plan and funneled plan assets to a subsidiary, according to a filing in New Jersey federal court.
August 24, 2022
A federal judge trimmed a proposed class action against American Data Processing, preserving claims that it should have leveraged its $4.4 billion benefits plan to garner lower fees, while axing plan participants' allegations that the company illegally allowed service providers to access private data.
January 03, 2021
In 2021, courts stand poised to consider whether employers can kick benefit plan mismanagement suits to arbitration and whether two novel theories in class actions over retirement plans hold water. Here, Law360 highlights six ERISA cases to watch in the new year.
August 26, 2020
A proposed class of retirement savers accusing human resources company ADP of letting third-party service providers access their "highly confidential data" have urged a New Jersey federal judge not to toss their case, arguing that ADP had a duty to protect the information.
August 03, 2020
Human resources company ADP is urging a New Jersey federal judge to toss a proposed class action claiming it wrongly allowed third-party service providers to use its retirement plan participants' "highly confidential data" for marketing, arguing the information isn't a plan asset under ERISA.
May 22, 2020
A handful of recent lawsuits challenging retirement plan managers' lax cybersecurity policies and use of workers' data for marketing purposes could shed light on an area of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that has long been shrouded in mystery: employers' cybersecurity and data privacy obligations.