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May 06, 2026
Workers claiming Inspire Brands' health plans illegally charge higher rates to tobacco users told a Georgia federal court Tuesday that the company's reading of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ignores the law's plain text and "leads to an absurd result."
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May 06, 2026
An Atlanta-area pharmacy unlawfully fired an employee because she joined the U.S. Army Reserve, the former worker alleged in a complaint filed in Georgia federal court, saying the owner said she "needed someone that was going to be at work."
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May 06, 2026
The Seventh Circuit has declined to reinstate a fired immigration officer's suit claiming the Department of Homeland Security failed to accommodate his medical issues, saying that his claims were "meritless" and that he hadn't properly attempted to resolve them within the agency before filing suit.
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May 06, 2026
Over a dozen Democratic senators urged the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to preserve safeguards for workers undergoing fertility treatments, asserting in a letter that Chair Andrea Lucas' plans to rewrite Pregnant Workers Fairness Act regulations could lead employers to unlawfully deny employees' accommodation requests.
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May 06, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge has said a Honeywell request for nearly $81,000 in attorney fees must wait while a former worker appeals the dismissal of a proposed class action alleging that the company violated federal law by mismanaging 401(k) forfeitures.
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May 05, 2026
The first D.C. Circuit showdown in widespread drug pricing litigation Tuesday appeared unlikely to deliver a badly needed win to the pharmaceutical industry, as a top manufacturer's attorney faced a cool reception generally and an extended barrage of skepticism from one judge.
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May 05, 2026
A Delaware federal judge on Friday dismissed a proposed class action brought by Chemours investors alleging that the chemical company's executives manipulated financial metrics for personal gain, saying the plaintiffs didn't show the existence of a material misrepresentation.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court should revive claims that the New York State Teamsters Conference Pension and Retirement Fund was mismanaged, a Teamsters-represented worker argued, asking the justices to breathe new life into his twice-dismissed Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit.
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May 05, 2026
A Washington federal judge disqualified Cicotte Law Firm PLLC on Tuesday from representing a consultant accused of mismanaging Oregon Potato Co.'s employee benefits plan, concluding the food processor has shown a potential conflict of interest based on the reasonable belief that it was previously a client of the firm.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court turned down a bakery company's bid for review of a union multiemployer pension withdrawal bill, the Fourth Circuit held a bonus plan was exempt from federal benefits law, and the Sixth Circuit ruled federal law preempted Arkansas pharmacy benefit manager laws and regulations. Here's more on those and two other major decisions from April that benefits attorneys may want to know.
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May 05, 2026
BlackRock and State Street have further urged a Texas federal judge to trim down antitrust claims from Republican state attorneys general accusing the asset managers of driving up coal prices, arguing that the chain from their investment activity to retail electricity prices "stretches through multiple intervening markets and countless nonparties."
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May 05, 2026
Hartford Insurance members should not be granted summary judgment in a $1.7 million premium suit, a government contractor has said, arguing in Connecticut federal court the contractor has successfully pled its breach of contract claims.
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May 05, 2026
A transportation company cannot pursue its claims that the IRS adopted a secret rule that targeted its stock ownership plan, a Wisconsin federal judge ruled, throwing out the company's suit.
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May 05, 2026
A Pennsylvania federal judge largely refused to let dozens of generic-drug makers duck stand-alone price-fixing and market allocation antitrust claims from major employers like General Motors, American Airlines and Lowe's, nixing allegations against a small handful while importantly preserving them against Novartis and its former Sandoz subsidiary.
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May 05, 2026
Alcoa USA Corp. and a class of retirees told the Seventh Circuit on Tuesday they had reached a tentative settlement in a long-running dispute over union retiree life insurance benefits, asking the court to cancel a scheduled May 20 oral argument while they finalize the deal.
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May 05, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's employee benefits arm cleared the way for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation to establish a group health plan for its members' employees, determining the proposed plan would be covered by federal benefits law.
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May 04, 2026
Former Exxon Chief Executive Rex Tillerson testified Monday that the company's top brass never pressured employees to make the company's holdings seem more profitable than they were, telling a jury in Texas federal court that he stood by the reports the company issued to investors.
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May 04, 2026
A former Google Cloud salesman who claims the company fired him during cancer treatment to avoid a nearly $4 million life insurance payout told a Connecticut federal court that Google's latest bid to dismiss his suit should be denied.
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May 04, 2026
The California Hospital Association urged a state court to block Anthem Blue Cross' implementation of a new policy that penalizes participating facilities for using nonparticipating providers, saying the plan is illegal, fraudulent and an unfair business practice.
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May 04, 2026
Software company MongoDB Inc. must face some but not all claims from a proposed investor class action alleging it failed to disclose the financial fallout from a change in its customer acquisition strategy, a Manhattan federal judge has ruled.
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May 04, 2026
A group of union carpenters and the trustees of their retirement plans have reached a proposed settlement in a class action accusing the fiduciaries of mismanaging pension assets by investing in risky hedge funds that lost more than $250 million.
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May 04, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday temporarily reinstated telehealth access for the abortion medication mifepristone, pausing a lower-court order that had blocked by-mail and remote prescriptions.
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May 01, 2026
For more than 20 years, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has failed to pay tens of millions in reimbursements to hospitals serving low-income populations by incorrectly factoring service days for patients enrolled in Medicare Part C, a coalition of 91 medical centers claimed in a D.C. federal lawsuit.
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May 01, 2026
The Fifth Circuit on Friday reinstated an in-person dispensing requirement for the abortion medication mifepristone, blocking mail-order access while a challenge to a Biden administration regulation brought by Louisiana officials moves forward.
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May 01, 2026
A benefits and claims administration company will pay $3 million to end an employee's proposed class action alleging a tobacco fee on her health plan violated federal benefits law, according to the terms of the proposed deal filed in Tennessee federal court Friday.