Bayada Retirement Suit Tossed Under High Court Cornell Decision

Bayada Home Health Care Inc. defeated a proposed class action challenging its retirement plan fees and funds, when a federal judge offered a defendant-friendly take on the US Supreme Court’s most recent ERISA opinion.

The workers challenged the Bayada plan’s recordkeeping and advisory fees under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s prohibited transaction rules, which put guardrails on arrangements between benefit plans and their service providers.

Judge Martin Reidinger dismissed these claims Tuesday after parsing the US Supreme Court’s 2025 decision in Cunningham v. Cornell Univ., which made it easier for employees to bring prohibited transaction claims without including ...