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July 02, 2026
U.S. Bank retirees asked the Eighth Circuit to dismiss their appeal of the bank's early win in their federal benefits lawsuit alleging that their early retirement payments were unlawfully reduced, telling the court they had opted not to pursue a revival bid for the case.
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July 02, 2026
Hall Benefits Law has hired an executive and equity compensation practice group leader from Trucker Huss, bringing in a practitioner with more than three decades of experience advising employers about benefit plan designs and their tax implications as the firm expands in Sacramento, California.
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July 01, 2026
Four major pharmaceutical companies Wednesday urged a California federal court to toss False Claims Act allegations revived by the Ninth Circuit claiming they filed false ceiling prices for drugs and overcharged entities covered by a federal discount program, saying the suit is precluded by the FCA's public disclosure bar.
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July 01, 2026
A New York federal judge on Wednesday awarded class counsel Capozzi Adler PC $3.2 million in attorney fees and granted final approval to a $9.6 million settlement resolving claims Capital One improperly used forfeited employee funds paid into the company's retirement plan to reduce its own contributions instead of curtailing administrative costs.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor's lack of controls over information sharing between subagencies and nongovernmental entities, including law firms and legal advocacy organizations, may have unfairly advantaged those parties with privileged investigative information, an agency watchdog reported, though use of the practice has dropped off.
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July 01, 2026
Insurance law took center stage in Colorado's appellate courts during the first half of 2026, but civil rights litigation produced its own notable mark on the landscape. Here, Law360 breaks down four major rulings in Colorado courts from the first half of 2026.
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July 01, 2026
A Michigan federal judge labeled a former General Motors employee a "vexatious litigator" in an opinion issued Tuesday after she filed "five separate lawsuits raising the same claims" against the same defendants and dismissed her workplace bias and harassment suit against General Motors Flint Assembly and UAW Local 598.
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July 01, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor is gearing up to repeal a Biden-era rule allowing retirement fiduciaries to consider issues like climate change and social justice when choosing investments, sending the proposed repeal to the White House for review.
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July 01, 2026
A Wisconsin federal judge shut down a worker's suit claiming beer manufacturer Molson Coors unlawfully kept a lackluster Fidelity investment fund in its $1.5 billion retirement plan, saying the worker hadn't identified a comparable fund that would have brought better returns.
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June 30, 2026
AIDS Healthcare Foundation says its nonprofit wellness centers are going to be run out of business if Cigna-owned pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts isn't stopped from using its muscle in the market to steer pharmacy patients toward specialty pharmacies it's affiliated with.
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June 30, 2026
Ohio pharmacy benefit managers and their corporate parents urged a federal judge to toss the state's drug price-fixing lawsuit, saying in a series of briefs that the state is trying to skirt federal pleading standards, collapse corporate separateness and stretch Ohio's antitrust law beyond its limits.
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June 30, 2026
In this month's review of defamation fights, Law360 highlights Tyra Banks' suit over a Netflix docuseries about her long-running modeling competition show, as well as a late-night television host's defeat of a case taking issue with a segment on Medicaid coverage in Iowa.
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June 30, 2026
Empower announced Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire the retirement administration business of consulting and actuarial firm Milliman for $340 million, expanding its presence in the defined benefit pension market through a deal steered by Eversheds Sutherland and K&L Gates LLP, respectively.
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June 30, 2026
A California federal judge stayed deadlines Tuesday in a federal benefits class action against a plumbing company and the caretakers of its defunct employee stock ownership plan that was set for trial in September, after the parties said they'd settled their dispute Monday following mediation.
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June 30, 2026
A New York federal judge agreed Tuesday to stay deadlines in a proposed class action from Mitsubishi Chemical America ex-workers who alleged their 401(k) savings were dragged down by lackluster fund offerings, after the parties told the court Monday that they had settled their dispute.
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June 29, 2026
Washington's Department of Retirement Systems owes nearly $120 million to a class of more than 26,000 public school teachers after decades of wrongfully withholding interest and investment returns from their retirement accounts, according to a state judge's ruling in a long-running employee benefits case.
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June 29, 2026
A former instructor's dispute over an allegedly improper performance review cannot move forward against the University of Chicago and a Service Employees International Union local because he hasn't raised viable claims over the process that led to his contract nonrenewal, an Illinois federal judge said Monday.
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June 29, 2026
The U.S. Department of Justice is asking federal courts to force Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota and Pennsylvania to turn over their Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program applicant data that the Trump administration claims it needs to uncover billions of dollars in overpayments and fraud.
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June 29, 2026
An appeal testing the limits of ERISA fiduciary liability goes before the Third Circuit in July when DuPont and Corteva seek to overturn a district court ruling that a corporate spinoff damaged employees' retirement benefits. The court will also hear argument on whether heavy equipment giant Caterpillar forced a competitor out of business by pressuring a vendor. Here are some highlights from the court's July calendar.
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June 29, 2026
A Colorado state court judge issued a citation on Friday to Children's Hospital Colorado ordering it to show cause for why the hospital refuses to provide gender-affirming care to patients in violation of a preliminary injunction order issued by the Colorado Supreme Court.
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June 29, 2026
Optum, Caremark and Express Scripts on Monday dropped their appeal in a case challenging the constitutionality of the Federal Trade Commission's in-house administrative process, and the pharmacy benefit managers are working to settle the commission's remaining insulin-pricing claims.
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June 29, 2026
The Eighth Circuit on Monday turned down an employee health plan participant's bid to revive a proposed class action alleging CVS Caremark unjustly enriched itself by failing to comply with Arkansas laws on pharmacy network adequacy, holding a lower court didn't err in tossing the dispute.
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June 29, 2026
An Eastern Michigan University interior design professor has sued the university and its board of regents in Michigan federal court, alleging the school systematically paid female faculty less than similarly situated male professors and then refused to correct the disparity after she sought a salary adjustment.
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June 29, 2026
The Federal Circuit has rejected an attorney's bid to secure attorney fees following her client's long-running quest for disability benefits from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, finding that a separate case commenced following his February 2021 hip surgery.
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June 29, 2026
Paul Hastings LLP has hired a former White & Case LLP partner to join the firm in New York, who focuses her practice on compensation and benefits issues and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the firm announced Monday.