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Stephen has chaired the ERISA and insurance coverage/bad faith litigation practices at two Boston firms, and has practiced extensively in commercial litigation for nearly 30 years. As head of the Wagner Law Group's ERISA litigation practice, he represents plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, financial advisors, plan participants, company executives, third-party administrators, employers and others in a broad range of ERISA disputes, including breach of fiduciary duty, denial of benefit, Employee Stock Ownership Plan and deferred compensation matters.

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So much to choose from to write about this week, but I am, by my own rules for this series of posts, limited to five topics. I noted last week that there was a risk I would beat holiday jokes into the ground this month, and here I go again, starting with an article about…

For this week’s Five Favorites for Friday, I have a full stocking of gifts (too early for Xmas allusions? Maybe, but I was in New York for work and saw the Rockefeller Center Tree, which inspired that lede). Let’s get right into opening them up (and yes, I will probably beat that gag to death…

About 24 years ago I won a trial on behalf of Liberty Mutual in an insurance bad faith action in which plaintiff’s counsel sought to multiply an underlying multimillion dollar judgment against the insured based on an alleged bad faith failure by the insurer to settle the tort claim. At the time, it represented –…

Financial expert turned professional writer Susan Mangiero has a new article out on the issue of adding alternative investments to 401(k) plans. It provides an excellent summary of the issues and is particularly helpful if you are new to the topic – it will get you up to speed quickly.

I make a guest appearance…

ERISA litigation goes through phases and waves. It wasn’t that long ago that it seemed I was constantly litigating, in multiple cases, the distinction between so-called ministerial functions – which cannot support fiduciary liability – and fiduciary conduct. Here’s one example. Over time and a number of judicial decisions, an interpretative bulletin issued by…

This week, I cheated. I have known since Tuesday that I wasn’t going to have time to either blog or post on LinkedIn this week on even a small portion of the articles, ideas, podcasts and presentations that were crossing my desk and catching my eye. So I started writing this week’s Five Favorites for…