Labor Department, Insurers Group End 2020 Fiduciary Guidance Row

April 28, 2026, 9:07 PM UTC

A group representing insurers and the Department of Labor jointly agreed to dismiss a lawsuit over the agency’s 2020 guidance on the definition of a fiduciary.

The DOL and the Federation of Americans for Consumer Choice entered into a joint stipulation to dismiss the lawsuit without prejudice, FACC said Monday. FACC had sued in 2022 over the 2020 guidance, which reinterpreted a decades-old five-part test for determining fiduciary status for retirement accounts and applied tougher standards to rollover recommendations.

The lawsuit was rendered moot after the DOL vacated a Biden administration fiduciary rule and withdrew the 2020 guidance at the ...

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