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March 06, 2026
Two labor unions and a retirees group that claimed Department of Government Efficiency personnel were allowed to access Treasury Department computer systems can't proceed with their lawsuit, a D.C. federal judge ruled, finding they failed to establish that the agency's decisions can be considered a final agency action.
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March 06, 2026
The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service proposed tax guidance Friday for people considering the government's offer to make $1,000 contributions under a new type of individual retirement accounts for children known as Trump accounts.
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March 06, 2026
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court this month will revisit a ruling on the state attorney general's power over civil suits brought by county-level district attorneys in a case stemming from the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh district attorneys' objections to a $26 billion opioid settlement.
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March 05, 2026
OpenAI is practicing law without a license, according to an insurer's lawsuit filed in Illinois federal court that alleges artificial intelligence platform ChatGPT provided faulty legal advice to a woman seeking disability benefits that led to a breached settlement and a flurry of frivolous court filings.
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March 05, 2026
Boeing won't have to pay attorney fees for a worker who got a discrimination case over bonuses sent back to Washington state court after the company yanked it into a federal venue, as a judge ruled Thursday that the aerospace giant's removal of the case wasn't egregious.
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March 05, 2026
A Ninth Circuit judge said Thursday he's "very frustrated" with the Trump administration's argument that a district court judge acted prematurely by partly blocking executive orders to end funding for gender-affirming care, saying it's "pretty clear" the government was poised to do exactly that.
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March 05, 2026
The U.S. Government Accountability Office denied a protest over the awarding of a $325 million Centers for Disease Control and Prevention contract, finding the agency's extra round of discussions with the winning bidder did not result in an unequal process.
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March 05, 2026
A former hospital maintenance worker injured in a workplace attack has ended his federal lawsuit against Stamford Health Inc. after the parties told a Connecticut federal judge they had reached an "agreement in principle" that needed approval from the state Workers' Compensation Commission.
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March 05, 2026
An Arizona federal judge refused to dismiss a proposed class action against a tire and wheel retailer alleging mismanagement of a $1.2 billion employee 401(k) plan, holding that an ex-worker sufficiently backed up claims that an underperforming suite of target-date fund investments violated federal benefits law.
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March 05, 2026
A Minneapolis man has been sentenced to almost five years in prison for his role in a scheme to bribe a juror during the trial of Minnesota nonprofit Feeding Our Future, which was accused of stealing $250 million in COVID-19 relief funds earmarked to provide lunches to schoolchildren.
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March 05, 2026
An AT&T worker can't ask the Ninth Circuit to review the dismissal of his proposed class action claiming the telecommunications company misused forfeited 401(k) funds, with a California federal judge saying his attorney's busy schedule was "one of the least compelling excuses" for filing a late appeal.
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March 05, 2026
A North Carolina federal judge ruled a Blue Cross Blue Shield unit must face proposed class action claims over its administration of a state employee health plan from a participant alleging it arbitrarily characterized a proton beam cancer radiation treatment as experimental to deny coverage.
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March 05, 2026
The Second Circuit refused to boot a former Luxottica worker's proposed class claims into solo arbitration, a Texas federal judge declined to snuff out a tobacco fee suit against 7-Eleven and a healthcare company inked a $43 million deal to wrap a case over how it handled 401(k) plan forfeitures. Here's a look back at six noteworthy moves in Employee Retirement Income Security Act cases from last month.
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March 05, 2026
A call center company has agreed to settle a proposed class and collective action accusing it of misclassifying workers as independent contractors rather than employees, the call center workers and the company told a Florida federal court.
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March 05, 2026
O'Reilly Auto Parts will pay $5.6 million to resolve claims that it failed to provide reasonable workplace accommodations to pregnant and postpartum workers and retaliated against them, the Washington Attorney General's Office announced.
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March 04, 2026
Cushman & Wakefield mismanaged its employee retirement plan by ignoring "glaring red flags" in its selection of an underperforming fund that exposed investors to climate-related risks, according to what the plaintiff's counsel called a "first-of-its-kind" class action that accuses the commercial estate firm of violating the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
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March 04, 2026
World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. shareholders are pursuing sanctions against WWE's top brass, telling the Delaware Chancery Court that company leaders destroyed evidence regarding the terms of its 2023 merger with Ultimate Fighting Championship.
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March 04, 2026
The maker of heartburn and acid reflux relief tablet Zantac has defeated a securities fraud class action claiming the company hid for decades the cancer risks associated with the drug, causing a stock price drop when the truth was revealed, after a Pennsylvania federal judge ruled Wednesday that the claims were untimely.
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March 04, 2026
A New Jersey state appeals panel has reinstated an arbitration award ordering the city of Paterson to pay the dental health insurance plan costs for members of a firefighters union, ruling that the city must cover the costs under the terms of its contract with the union.
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March 04, 2026
A construction company has agreed to settle a suit claiming it stood by while its retirement plan was overcharged in management fees, causing workers to lose out on millions of dollars in savings, according to a California federal court filing.
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March 04, 2026
A New York federal judge on Wednesday narrowed a proposed class action alleging the Teachers Insurance Annuity Association of America and its affiliates violated federal benefits law by coercing retirees into higher-cost managed accounts, holding individual retirees lacked standing to sue on behalf of participants in thousands of other plans.
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March 04, 2026
The public political battle between Minnesota and the federal government over alleged Medicaid fraud in the state continued Wednesday on Capitol Hill, with Republicans and Democrats casting stones at each other after President Donald Trump's administration pulled nearly $260 million in healthcare funding from the state.
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March 04, 2026
The Seventh Circuit affirmed a healthcare company's win in a former human resources specialist's Family and Medical Leave Act suit, holding that the health system lawfully terminated her for failing to return to work once her approved leave expired.
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March 03, 2026
Goldman Sachs and two of its former executives have asked a New York federal judge to grant them an early win in an investor suit claiming losses from the 1MDB bond bribery scandal, saying that what remains in the suit is an "incoherent, reverse-engineered theory of securities fraud that the factual record does not sustain."
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March 03, 2026
Consulting giant Deloitte and investors in utility company SCANA Corp. have gotten a final nod for their $34 million settlement of proposed class action claims that Deloitte gave cover to SCANA as it hid delays and cost overruns for a $9 billion nuclear energy expansion project it eventually abandoned.