Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, the insurer suing the Department of Labor over its fiduciary rule, said Monday that it plans to file a preliminary injunction soon to halt the anti-arbitration clause set out in the rule's best-interest contract exemption.
In a Monday letter to Judge Susan Richard Nelson in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, the lead attorney for Thrivent, Andrew Kay, said that due to Labor's refusal to address Thrivent's concerns about "the anti-arbitration condition that remains part of the [best-interest contract exemption]" to the fiduciary rule, Thrivent intends to "file soon" a motion for preliminary injunction.
Thrivent became the sixth plaintiff to lob a complaint against Labor's fiduciary rule when the insurer filed a suit last September challenging the class-action waiver requirement under the rule's best-interest contract exemption, or BICE.
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Melanie Waddell
Melanie is senior editor and Washington bureau chief of ThinkAdvisor. Her ThinkAdvisor coverage zeros in on how politics, policy, legislation and regulations affect the investment advisory space. Melanie’s coverage has been cited in various lawmakers’ reports, letters and bills, and in the Labor Department’s fiduciary rule in 2024. In 2019, Melanie received an Honorable Mention, Range of Work by a Single Author award from @Folio. Melanie joined Investment Advisor magazine as New York bureau chief in 2000. She has been a columnist since 2002. She started her career in Washington in 1994, covering financial issues at American Banker. Since 1997, Melanie has been covering investment-related issues, holding senior editorial positions at American Banker publications in both Washington and New York. Briefly, she was content chief for Internet Capital Group’s EFinancialWorld in New York and wrote freelance articles for Institutional Investor. Melanie holds a bachelor’s degree in English from Towson University. She interned at The Baltimore Sun and its suburban edition.
