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Benefits
Benefits Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on employee benefits and executive compensation law. Coverage includes benefits-related litigation — including Employee Retirement Income Security Act suits and tax and compliance issues over executive compensation — as well as legislative and regulatory activity.
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Latest News in Benefits
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September 21, 2018
High Court Case On ERISA Burden Ends In Settlement
A U.S. Supreme Court case that could have resolved a circuit split over where the burden of proof falls in Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciary-breach cases ended Thursday, with the high court tossing a suit between Alerus Financial NA and an employee stock-ownership program after the parties settled.
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September 21, 2018
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
The last week has seen a London no dealing desk sue Merrill Lynch for breach of fiduciary duty, more competition claims against Visa and MasterCard and a German shipper bring a suit against Axa and other insurers.
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September 21, 2018
Employer, Insurer Can't Exit Ex-Worker's Trans Son's ACA Suit
A Minnesota federal judge has refused to let HealthPartners Inc. and Essentia Health escape claims from the transgender son of a former Essentia nurse practitioner over a health plan he alleged excluded gender transition-related health services, but let the companies out of the mother’s claim.
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September 21, 2018
Health Care Network Wants Religious Exemption Suit Canned
OSF HealthCare System urged an Illinois federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing it of failing to properly fund its retirement plans while wrongly claiming a religious exemption in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, arguing that the participants bringing the suit didn’t “meaningfully address” a relevant Tenth Circuit ruling.
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September 21, 2018
Chancery Judge Says Goldman Settlement Makes No Sense
A Delaware Chancery Court judge expressed confusion Friday over the nature of a settlement proposed among a shareholder of Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and the company's directors, saying the deal didn't make sense and didn't offer a balanced result because the board members weren't giving up the stock awards at the center of the excessive compensation complaint.
Areas of Coverage
- LITIGATION
- ERISA class actions
- Executive compensation disputes
- Health benefits suits
- Retirement benefits suits
- Worker misclassification actions
- Tax disputes over retirement plans and executive compensation
- Workers’ compensation suits
- AGENCIES
- Internal Revenue Service
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- U.S. Department of Labor
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- Family and Medical Leave Act
- Affordable Care Act
- State and federal employee benefits and executive compensation legislation and regulation
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of employee benefits practices
Readership
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- Corporate counsel and compliance officers at Fortune 1000 companies
- Human resources professionals
- Labor union leaders and members
- Information experts at law firms, agencies, and companies
- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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