August 04, 2026
A California federal judge agreed to rethink her previous order in a class action alleging that AT&T violated federal benefits law by allowing recordkeepers to earn excessive compensation from the company's employee retirement plan, sending some claims to trial about the fees and compensation of 401(k) plan service providers.
September 29, 2021
A California federal court threw out an ERISA class action lodged against AT&T Inc. by nearly 250,000 retirement plan members who claimed the telecommunications giant burdened its $35 billion retirement plan with excessive fees, finding the company proved it monitored the plan expenses.
June 15, 2021
AT&T Inc. urged a California federal judge to toss an ERISA suit accusing the telecommunications giant of wasting its workers' retirement savings on unreasonable fees, saying Monday that there isn't a "shred of evidence" to back up the allegations.
August 07, 2020
An ERISA suit accusing AT&T Services Inc. of wasting its workers' retirement savings on unreasonable fees and engaging in prohibited transactions will move forward as a class action after a California federal judge gave her blessing to a nearly 250,000-member class.
February 26, 2019
AT&T Services Inc. is still stuck with a proposed class action alleging the telecom giant burdened its $35 billion retirement plan with excessive fees after a California federal judge refused to rethink her decision allowing the claims to move forward.
January 22, 2019
Current and former AT&T employees have pressed a California federal judge to preserve their proposed class action alleging the telecom giant piled unnecessary costs and fees onto its nearly $35 billion 401(k) plan, saying the company's bid to escape their claims relies on a precedent that shouldn't apply.
December 18, 2018
AT&T Services Inc. has urged a California federal judge to revisit a decision allowing a suit accusing the telecom company of saddling its nearly $35 billion 401(k) plan with excessive costs and fees, arguing that a Ninth Circuit ruling in a similar case against Chevron had changed the legal landscape.
October 30, 2018
A proposed class of current and former AT&T employees can proceed with the bulk of their suit accusing the telecom company of burdening its nearly $35 billion 401(k) plan with excessive costs and fees, a California federal judge ruled Tuesday.
July 19, 2018
A California federal judge has tossed a proposed class action alleging that AT&T Inc. wrongly saddled its $34 billion 401(k) plan with excessive costs and fees, finding the current and former employees didn't demonstrate that they brought their claims in time.