Estate and Succession Planning
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Jay Van Heyde authored a guest column entitled, Ninth Circuit Reverses Position on Arbitration of ERISA Claims, published in the September issue of ESOP|Report, a monthly publication by the ESOP Association.
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently issued both a published opinion (Dorman v. The Charles Schwab Corporation, 2019 WL 3926990 (9th Cir., August 20, 2019) and an unpublished opinion (Dorman v. The Charles Schwab Corporation, 2019 WL 3936944 (9th Cir., August 20, 2019) in a non-ESOP, ERISA case involving a 401(k) plan. The case offers important legal guidance in the area of arbitration provisions in ERISA qualified plans, which includes ESOPs. In his column, Van Heyde gives insight on both the published opinion and the unpublished opinion. Read the full article here: Ninth Circuit Reverses Position on Arbitration of ERISA Claims.
