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· 9/6/2011

Loomis v. Exelon Corp.

Citations

  • 658 F.3d 667
  • 51 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1705
  • 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 18480
  • 2011 WL 3890453

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • noting that “nothing in ERISA requires every fiduciary to scour the market to find and offer the cheapest possible fund (which might, of course, be plagued by other problems)”
  • noting there was “no reason to think [the defendant] chose these funds to enrich itself at participants’ expense”
  • noting there was “no reason to think [the defendant] chose these funds to enrich itself at participants’ expense”
  • noting there was “no reason to think [the defendant] chose these funds to enrich itself at participants’ expense”
  • finding no claim where Defendants “offered participants a menu that includes high-expense, high-risk, and potentially high-return funds, together with low-expense, low-risk, modest-return bond funds”
  • rejecting the argument that ERISA’s fiduciary duties require employers to shoulder the costs of administering funds themselves

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Judges: Easterbrook, Chief Judge, and Posner and Tinder, Circuit Judges

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