{"id":152371,"date":"2026-05-19T12:38:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/?p=152371"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:38:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T20:38:37","slug":"litigation-risk-meps-touted-as-cost-efficient-but-class-actions-suggest-otherwise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/05\/19\/litigation-risk-meps-touted-as-cost-efficient-but-class-actions-suggest-otherwise\/","title":{"rendered":"Litigation Risk: MEPs Touted as Cost-Efficient, but Class Actions Suggest Otherwise"},"content":{"rendered":"

An MEP is different from a single-employer 401(k), where identifying the fiduciary is more straightforward. Such fragmentation creates ambiguity\u2014and ambiguity tends to generate litigation.<\/p>\n

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An MEP is different from a single-employer 401(k), where identifying the fiduciary is more straightforward. Such fragmentation creates ambiguity\u2014and ambiguity tends to generate litigation.<\/p>\n

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An MEP is different from a single-employer 401(k), where identifying the fiduciary is more straightforward. Such fragmentation creates ambiguity\u2014and ambiguity tends to generate litigation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 An MEP is different from a single-employer 401(k), where identifying the fiduciary is more straightforward. Such fragmentation creates ambiguity\u2014and ambiguity tends to generate litigation. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":152372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/legal-news-HW2lIg.jpg?fit=767%2C505&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152373,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152371\/revisions\/152373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}