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October 13, 2026
Snack food company Mondelez Global LLC unlawfully charged employees who used tobacco an additional $1,200 per year to obtain health benefits without adequately explaining how workers could avoid the fee, according to a proposed class action filed in Illinois federal court.
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October 13, 2026
The full Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday overturned decades-old precedent that took a strict view of when federal benefits law claims could be brought in court, reviving a proposed class action alleging mismanagement of a seafood company's employee stock ownership plan.
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October 13, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected former Ruby Tuesday executives' bid for review of their claims that Regions Bank underpaid them after their deferred compensation benefits were liquidated in bankruptcy, turning away a case the ex-executives said presented a circuit split.
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October 09, 2026
Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. LLC, which runs a Pacific Northwest pulp and paper mill where 11 employees died after a chemical tank burst in May, has told a Washington judge that a wrongful death suit over the incident can't proceed because of the state's workers' compensation law.
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October 09, 2026
The Ninth Circuit on Friday revived a proposed data breach class action alleging health plan administrator AmeriBen unlawfully revealed patients' information, ruling the disclosures were enough to sustain a lawsuit even if the underlying information might seem "mundane."
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October 09, 2026
Fourteen states sued the federal government in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims on Friday, alleging the U.S. Department of Labor wrongfully terminated grants intended for modernizing their unemployment insurance programs.
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October 09, 2026
Employee benefits and human resources provider Alight urged an Illinois federal court to toss a suit alleging its executives misled investors about the company's ability to hit financial targets, arguing it repeatedly warned about the risks of its strategic overhaul.
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October 09, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge on Friday shut down two logistics companies' bid to stay discovery in a case claiming they didn't properly reimburse employees who paid a health plan fee for tobacco use, ruling a pause wasn't warranted given the suit's history.
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October 09, 2026
The Tenth and Seventh circuits issued published opinions in two union retirement disputes, while the Sixth Circuit found that the Commonwealth of Kentucky's lawsuit against pharmacy benefit managers does not belong in state court, citing colorable federal preemption arguments. Here's more on those decisions and three other notable rulings involving the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that came down in September.
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October 09, 2026
Two workers of a waste collection company urged a Texas federal judge to keep their case in court, claiming the business burdened its $800 million retirement plan with an underperforming stable value fund, arguing the retention of the fund itself demonstrates the company's imprudence.
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October 08, 2026
A former Amtrak employee and a New York podiatrist have been sentenced to prison for their roles in a scheme that prosecutors claim defrauded the rail carrier out of $11 million in health benefits, the U.S. attorney's office in New Jersey said.
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October 08, 2026
An airline industry trade group and a Colorado labor official told a federal judge they see virtually no chance of settling the group's lawsuit over whether a state paid sick leave law applies to airline workers, proposing trial dates for early 2027 and offering competing lengths for the proceeding.
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October 08, 2026
Consol Energy Inc. has reached a settlement with retired miners who claimed the company reneged on promises to provide them health benefits for life, months after the Fourth Circuit declined to scrap a bench trial judgment that awarded lifetime benefits to a pair of ex-miners but denied class claims.
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October 08, 2026
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to weigh in on whether the city of Philadelphia can sue CVS Pharmacy Inc. and other stores under state public nuisance laws for allegedly exacerbating the opioid epidemic with their prescription drug sales.
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October 08, 2026
Goodyear failed to snuff out a proposed class action alleging employees who used nicotine were unlawfully charged more to obtain health benefits, with an Ohio federal judge ruling Thursday that workers had plausibly alleged plan documents omitted key information about avoiding the surcharge.
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October 07, 2026
Companies behind the Josh Cellars wine brand say they should be allowed to introduce an ex-president's alleged litigation funding deals during an upcoming Connecticut jury trial, arguing they're necessary to defend against his assertions regarding a corporate operating agreement and to refute a possibly misleading portrayal of the parties' resources.
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October 07, 2026
A group of objectors told a Connecticut federal judge they will continue to fight a $147.5 million class settlement over life insurance costs that the Second Circuit imperiled in August, writing that a retooled complaint against Lincoln National and a Cigna unit only amplifies their concerns.
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October 07, 2026
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday released a report into its investigation of a successful push for eco-friendly board members at ExxonMobil, warning institutional investors and asset managers that joining forces to exert influence over corporations could open them up to additional scrutiny.
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October 07, 2026
A former president of a nonprofit organization serving the Telugu community who falsified tax returns by reclassifying expenditures meant to reimburse donors as legitimate expenses pled guilty to conspiracy to defraud the U.S. government in California federal court.
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October 07, 2026
A former CVS worker dropped his proposed class action alleging the pharmacy giant cost workers millions in retirement savings and violated federal benefits law by failing to rein in excessive administrative fees in its $27 billion 401(k) plan, according to a filing in New York federal court.
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October 07, 2026
A Blue Cross Blue Shield unit failed to pay thousands of dollars in awards that an air ambulance company won through the No Surprises Act's arbitration process for out-of-network services rendered to the insurer's beneficiaries, the company alleges in a suit in West Virginia federal court.
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October 07, 2026
The Fifth Circuit refused to upend the U.S. Department of Labor's win in a suit accusing a Louisiana contracting company executive of unlawfully keeping the insurance contributions deducted from employees' paychecks, rejecting his argument that he wasn't responsible for administering the company's benefit plans.
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October 06, 2026
AstraZeneca on Monday asked the Fourth Circuit to resurrect its suit challenging how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services determines which drugs are subject to the landmark drug-pricing program, arguing that CMS is dodging limits on how many drugs can be selected by grouping some together.
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October 06, 2026
A New York federal judge on Tuesday declined to give CVS another opportunity to dismiss a lawsuit accusing it of inflating its revenues through the use of artificial intelligence.
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October 06, 2026
An Illinois federal judge on Tuesday denied a bid from Sprout Social Inc. to dismiss a proposed investor class action alleging the social media management company missed its financial guidance and struggled to integrate an influencer marketing platform it acquired, finding the suit's challenged statements are actionable and that the claims suggest the defendants knowingly committed fraud.