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June 23, 2026
Three union benefit funds lack standing in their lawsuit accusing New York-Presbyterian Hospital of using anticompetitive tactics when negotiating with health insurance companies, the hospital told a New York federal judge, saying the negotiations are between it and the insurers.
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June 23, 2026
A New Jersey federal judge Tuesday agreed to certify a class of workers alleging Konica Minolta used an office relocation as a guise to conduct a mass layoff without having to pay severance.
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June 23, 2026
Payroll processing company ADP has agreed to settle a 50,000-member class action alleging it kept expensive, underperforming investment options in its 401(k) plan and funneled millions of dollars from employees' retirement savings to a subsidiary, according to a filing in New Jersey federal court.
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June 23, 2026
Trustees of a Teamsters-affiliated pension fund have reached a partial settlement in a lawsuit over a more than $1.8 million reallocation liability assessment against a defunct transit company, asking a New York federal court to pause claims against the settling defendants while they secure financing and make payment.
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June 22, 2026
Former executives, underwriters and large investors of now-defunct biotechnology company Zymergen received initial approval on Monday of a $125 million deal to end claims that they misled shareholders ahead of the company's initial public offering by approving misstatements about Zymergen's commercial product pipeline.
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June 22, 2026
The Michigan Court of Appeals upheld a $3 million award to a former employee of a wealth management company, saying Monday that enough evidence supported a jury's finding that CIG Capital Advisors deliberately misled the plaintiff about his ownership status and diverted revenue to hide profits.
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June 22, 2026
A California federal judge refused to toss a Sodexo worker's proposed class action alleging the global food services company wrongly charged nicotine-using employees $1,200 more a year for health insurance, opening discovery on allegations that a wellness program implementing the surcharge didn't meet all federal requirements.
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June 22, 2026
A federal judge allowed a national airline trade group's challenge to Michigan's earned sick leave law to move forward Monday in a Michigan federal court, finding the group plausibly alleged the law is preempted by a federal aviation deregulation statute.
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June 22, 2026
A former New Jersey state judge who alleged that court administrators discriminated against her because of her upscale clothing and accessories has settled her federal civil rights lawsuit against court officials.
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June 22, 2026
The Third Circuit on Monday affirmed Quest Diagnostics Inc.'s victory over a proposed class action accusing the company of mismanaging its employee 401(k) plan, holding the company followed a prudent process in deciding to retain two challenged investment funds despite periods of underperformance.
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June 22, 2026
The Delaware Chancery Court this past week handled disputes involving executive compensation, take-private transactions, books and records demands, tender offers and alleged insider misconduct.
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June 22, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday turned down a Minnesota teachers union local's bid for review of an Eighth Circuit decision that revived a taxpayer challenge to a collective bargaining agreement's policy letting workers take paid time off to work for their union.
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June 18, 2026
CSX Transportation asked a Florida federal judge to toss two ex-workers' claims that they were fired for using Family and Medical Leave Act leave, saying one was fired for using the leave dishonestly and the other was fired for repeatedly calling out sick without medical documentation.
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June 18, 2026
A microchip maker has agreed to settle a long-running class action alleging the company illegally shut down its severance program following a 2016 merger weeks before the case was set to go to trial, according to a California federal court filing.
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June 18, 2026
Trump accounts, the new tax-advantaged brokerage accounts for newborns, will generally not be considered employee pension benefit plans and will not be subject to federal benefits laws, according to guidance issued Thursday by the U.S. Department of Labor.
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June 18, 2026
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has terminated a 2022 consent order with Bank of America NA over its handling of prepaid unemployment benefit cards during the COVID-19 pandemic, closing out a key part of a Biden-era joint enforcement action against the bank.
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June 18, 2026
The U.S. Supreme Court's acceptance of a petition challenging Intel's 401(k) investment lineup and a Fourth Circuit ruling unraveling a class of Genworth Financial retirement plan participants headlined the court developments that caught benefits attorneys' attention in the first six months of 2026. Here, Law360 looks at those and other noteworthy ERISA decisions.
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June 18, 2026
Nonprofit health system Advocate Aurora Health reached a deal to close a proposed class action claiming it hit workers with an unlawful fee through their health plan if they used tobacco, according to a filing in Illinois federal court.
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June 17, 2026
A Connecticut federal judge has agreed to throw out three Aetna entities' allegations that air ambulance operators misrepresented their services throughout an Independent Dispute Resolution award process, finding that the federal No Surprises Act bars the insurer's counterclaims.
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June 17, 2026
Luxottica and a former worker who challenged the company's methodology for paying annuity benefits agreed Wednesday to resolve a proposed class action, a month after the nation's highest court declined the eyewear-maker's bid to review a Second Circuit ruling keeping some of her claims out of arbitration.
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June 17, 2026
A Third Circuit panel on Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a man's lawsuit alleging his late wife's employer improperly denied life insurance benefits, finding the employer had no control over whether benefits were paid out.
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June 17, 2026
OhioHealth swore off contract language inhibiting the ability of insurers to steer patients to cheaper healthcare providers, in a settlement resolving one of two U.S. Department of Justice antitrust lawsuits targeting alleged hospital network efforts to force insurers to cover their hospitals in all plans.
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June 17, 2026
A D.C. federal court should toss a suit by AbbVie challenging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' interpretation of who qualifies as a "patient" for audits under the federal 340B drug discount program, HHS said in a motion, arguing the court lacks jurisdiction.
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June 17, 2026
A UPS package driver asked a Colorado federal court to certify a class of over 12,000 union workers who allege the delivery giant failed to provide paid sick leave as required under state law, arguing the company's uniform statewide policies make the case well suited for class treatment.
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June 16, 2026
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday vacated a woman's convictions of taking her dead grandmother's Social Security money as time-barred, ruling that the statute of limitations began running when she stopped collecting the checks, not when her grandmother's body was found in her freezer.