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Latest News in Benefits

  • September 17, 2025

    NCR Pushes For Full 11th Circ. Review In Pension Payout Spat

    Software company NCR Corp. asked the full Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to examine a pension payout fight with former executives in the wake of a three-judge panel's ruling last month that the company can't issue lump-sum payments to plan participants as alternatives to promised life annuities.

  • September 17, 2025

    Chancery Mulls Limited Discovery In $8.7B Cerevel Sale Suit

    A Delaware vice chancellor said Wednesday he is considering denial of a motion to dismiss as well as limited plaintiff discovery in a suit accusing Cerevel Therapeutics Holdings Inc. insiders of lining up a secondary stock sale ahead of the biopharma's disclosure of a proposed $8.7 billion sale to AbbVie.

  • September 17, 2025

    Hospital Agrees To End Retirement Plan Fee, Investment Suit

    A New York hospital system told a federal court Wednesday it will end a proposed class action alleging it failed to remove underperforming investment options from its retirement plan and keep an eye on administrative costs, losing millions of dollars of employees' savings.

  • September 17, 2025

    Chancery Approves $30M Match.com Spinoff Suit Settlement

    A Delaware vice chancellor approved a $30 million mediated settlement Wednesday to resolve a five-year dispute over the fairness of Match.com's 2019 reverse spinoff from Barry Diller-controlled IAC/Interactive, with stockholder attorneys taking home $6.9 million.

  • September 17, 2025

    11th Circ. Seems Open To Reviving Mortality Table Suit

    The Eleventh Circuit on Wednesday seemed open to reviving a proposed class action from married energy company retirees who claim outdated life expectancy data caused them to lose out on benefits, with judges questioning the lower court's holding that actuarial assumptions don't have to be reasonable.

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