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March 03, 2026
Former Wells Fargo workers on the employer healthcare plan failed to show that the company violated federal benefits law by allowing them to overpay for prescription drugs, a Minnesota federal judge found Tuesday, tossing the proposed class action.
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March 03, 2026
The Fourth Circuit refused Tuesday to reopen a dispute over lifetime retirement health and life insurance benefits from a proposed class of retired coal miners, keeping in place a West Virginia federal court's judgment that broadly favored the company following a seven-day bench trial.
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March 03, 2026
A split Third Circuit panel said Tuesday it won't revive allegations that two companies owe about $800,000 to a union pension fund, ruling that a New Jersey federal judge properly tossed the claim because the fund waited eight years to tell the companies they owed the money.
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March 03, 2026
A Washington federal judge said Marsh & McLennan Agency can't escape a suit claiming the consulting firm allowed a food processing company's health benefits plan to be financially mismanaged, ruling there's enough detail on the record to keep the claims in court.
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March 03, 2026
Federal Trade Commission staffers got more time Tuesday for settlement talks with OptumRx and Caremark that could end the agency's case accusing the pharmacy benefit managers of inflating insulin prices, with staffers citing considerable progress in the weeks since inking a deal with Express Scripts.
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March 03, 2026
A union pension fund has dropped its lawsuit alleging that the Boston Globe failed to pay monthly contributions and provide records of the hours its employees worked, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.
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March 02, 2026
A Fifth Circuit panel wanted to know why investors should get another shot at a direct class action alleging that McDermott International Inc. made misrepresentations about a $6 billion merger, asking Monday if the case before the court was "analogous" to a case alleging the company overpaid for the merger.
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March 02, 2026
Mental-health professionals in Texas risk losing their licenses and public funding if they "facilitate" the gender-affirming care banned under state law, said an opinion issued Friday by Attorney General Ken Paxton, which calls them the "gatekeepers."
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March 02, 2026
A New York federal judge on Monday granted Anthem escape from a proposed class action from patients who alleged inaccuracies in the insurer's mental health provider directory violated New York state laws, holding their claims were preempted by federal employee health benefits law.
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March 02, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court's docket last week featured headline-grabbing disputes involving fast food giant Jack in the Box and boxing legend Mike Tyson's cannabis venture, alongside high-stakes fights over merger documents, appraisal rights and a $75 million renewable energy funding clash.
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March 02, 2026
Pepsi has defeated a proposed class action claiming it unlawfully charged employees who used tobacco more to obtain health insurance, with a New York federal judge shutting down a worker's argument that the company hadn't given tobacco users a sufficient way to avoid the surcharge.
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March 02, 2026
NextEra Energy will pay $8 million to end a class action from 20,000 former employees who alleged the company misspent forfeited 401(k) plan funds and allowed plan recordkeeper Fidelity to charge excessive fees, according to filings in Florida federal court.
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February 27, 2026
A Colorado mental health and substance use treatment facilities operator and its patients asked a Colorado federal judge to stop Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's claims practices, alleging its process violates federal benefits and mental health parity laws and disrupts access to lifesaving care.
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February 27, 2026
The Second Circuit on Friday declined to revive a suit by investors claiming railroad operator Norfolk Southern Corp. botched disclosures about how an efficiency plan might cause derailments, validating a lower court's interpretation that the statements about safety were inactionable puffery.
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February 27, 2026
A U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs field examiner was still a prevailing party entitled to recover attorney fees and costs after the department reinstated her with back pay following her removal, the Federal Circuit ruled on Friday.
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February 27, 2026
A California federal judge has broadened an injunction barring the U.S. Department of Agriculture from cutting off Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funding to 21 states and the District of Columbia, finding the states are likely to succeed in challenging the department's renewed demand for sensitive program data as unlawful.
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February 27, 2026
California utility Pacific Gas & Electric Co., its brass, underwriters and shareholders have received initial approval of their $100 million deal settling claims the company misled investors about its safety practices ahead of deadly wildfires in the past decade.
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February 27, 2026
An ex-Wells Fargo worker will ask the Eighth Circuit to revive a suit challenging 401(k) forfeiture spending, the Trump administration will push the Ninth Circuit to greenlight its transgender health coverage policies and the Fourth Circuit will hear a severance fight from manufacturing plant workers. Here, Law360 looks at six oral argument sessions to watch out for in the coming month.
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February 27, 2026
An Ohio woman sued Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. in federal court Friday, alleging that the insurer wrongly denied her life insurance claim because her late husband used kratom, even though kratom is not a controlled substance or otherwise contraband.
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February 27, 2026
A venture capital firm cannot be held liable for damages claimed by the former CEO of a company in which it took a stake, remote work counts when determining personal jurisdiction and claims by two contractors that a municipal garage project deadline had been extended crumbled, according to recent rulings in Massachusetts state court.
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February 27, 2026
An Ohio federal court sanctioned a life insurer for failing to comply with orders dating to 2003 that required the carrier to transfer control of a dead policyholder's account to the court-appointed receiver for a viatical funding company.
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February 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is unlawfully attempting to recoup more than $31 million in Medicare overpayments made during the COVID-19 pandemic, a New York City skilled nursing center told a federal court, saying it shouldn't have to repay the money.
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February 27, 2026
Meta can't escape a transgender employee's lawsuit claiming the company's health plan unlawfully denied her coverage of gender-affirming surgeries, an Oregon federal judge ruled, rejecting the company's assertion that she hadn't adequately alleged the plan covered her desired procedures.
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February 27, 2026
Delaware's Supreme Court upheld Friday hotly contested legislation approved by state lawmakers in 2025 that expanded liability shields for some corporate acts involving controlling stockholders or potentially conflicted officers or directors, and narrowed public access to some corporate books and records.
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February 27, 2026
The U.S. Department of Labor said Friday that the public will be given more time to comment on a new proposed rule that would require pharmacy benefit managers to disclose how much money they've received while serving as intermediaries between drugmakers, pharmacies and insurers.