Plan Participants Failed To Support Breach Of Fiduciary Claims, Appellees Maintain

(January 25, 2018, 5:44 PM EST) -- BOSTON — A district court correctly determined that a 401(k)’s plan participants failed to meet their burden of proving that the plan trustee breached its fiduciary duties by engaging in prohibited transactions, the plan argues in a Jan. 10 brief filed in the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (John Brotherston, et al. v. Putnam Investments LLC, et al., No. 17-1711, 1st Cir.)....