August 16, 2024
A Colorado federal judge granted a group of workers class certification in their suit alleging Dish Network mismanaged its retirement fund and cost participants millions in savings by failing to snip an underperforming Fidelity Freedom Fund target date suite from the plan.
May 01, 2024
Dish Network and a group of former workers told a Colorado federal judge they've agreed that class treatment is the best fit for a lawsuit claiming the company failed to trim an underperforming Fidelity Freedom Fund target date suite from its retirement plan that cost workers millions in savings.
November 27, 2023
A Colorado federal judge backed a magistrate judge's call to mostly deny Dish Network's bid to dismiss a lawsuit brought by former employees alleging the company hurt their retirement savings by failing to nix underperforming investments from its plan.
November 07, 2023
A Colorado magistrate judge said Dish Network should have to face the majority of its former workers' proposed class action accusing it of stacking their $841 million retirement plan with low-performing funds, saying their new complaint fixed their old one's deficiencies.
March 28, 2023
A federal judge threw out a proposed class action from ex-Dish Network workers who sued over allegedly shoddy investments and lofty fees in their $841 million retirement plan, unswayed by the workers' call for the court to take a "holistic" analysis of their suit.
February 01, 2023
Former Dish Network Corp. employees' lawsuit accusing the satellite company of running afoul of federal benefits law should be tossed because the fees the 401(k) participants paid were on par with those paid by participants in similarly sized retirement plans, a federal magistrate judge said.
September 01, 2022
Dish Network told a Colorado federal court Thursday that its bid to shake claims that it mismanaged an employee benefits plan was bolstered by a recent Seventh Circuit decision to affirm the dismissal of 401(k) mismanagement claims against a truck manufacturer.
May 03, 2022
Dish Network urged a Colorado federal court to throw out a proposed class action lodged by former employees who claim the satellite television company saddled their 401(k) plan with excessive fees and risky investment options, arguing the suit simply rehashed claims made against other employers.
January 21, 2022
DISH Network was hit with a proposed class action in Colorado federal court by ex-workers who say the cable company violated federal benefits law by saddling their $841 million retirement plan with excessive administrative costs and offering expensive investment options that didn't perform well.