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Latest News in Benefits

  • May 26, 2026

    11th Circ. Restores Mortality Table Case Against Energy Co.

    The Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a proposed class action against a Southern Co. subsidiary from married retirees who said outdated life expectancy data caused them to lose out on benefits, holding that a lower court erred in ruling federal benefits law didn't require using reasonable actuarial assumptions in annuity conversions.

  • May 26, 2026

    Judge Tosses Anti-Pot Suit Over CMS Hemp Benefits Program

    A D.C. federal judge has thrown out a challenge to a Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services program to give Medicare beneficiaries access to federally legal hemp products, finding none of the groups or individuals who aimed to block the program have standing.

  • May 26, 2026

    Justices Won't Take Suit Against Teamsters Fund Overseers

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down a Teamsters retiree's bid for review of the dismissal of his proposed class action alleging that union multiemployer plan trustees and advisers allowed risky investments and hefty plan management fees, leaving in place a Second Circuit decision from November.

  • May 22, 2026

    Aon Hit With $120M Retirement Plan Underperformance Suit

    Aon Corp. was hit Friday with retirement plan mismanagement claims by a group of current and former participants who say fiduciaries' failure to remove underperforming Vanguard funds as investment options has cost their plan more than $120 million in assets.

  • May 22, 2026

    Microsoft To Pay $250M To End Activision Merger Suit

    Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $250 million to exit a lawsuit accusing it of shortchanging Activision Blizzard Inc. investors by rushing through a $75.4 billion deal to buy the video game company.

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