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Benefits Law360 provides breaking news and analysis on employee benefits and executive compensation law. Coverage includes benefits-related litigation — including Employee Retirement Income Security Act suits and tax and compliance issues over executive compensation — as well as legislative and regulatory activity.
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Latest News in Benefits
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January 16, 2026
Liberty Mutual Strikes Deal To End Sweeping 401(k) Suit
Liberty Mutual reached a settlement in a 50,000-member class action claiming the insurance company failed to rein in high fees and cull lackluster investment options from its employees' $7 billion retirement plan, a deal that comes just weeks before a scheduled trial.
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January 15, 2026
Air Force Asks Justices Not To Hear COVID Vax Back Pay Case
The U.S. Air Force urged the U.S. Supreme Court to not hear a reservist's bid for back pay after he refused to follow its now-overturned COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds, arguing its sovereign immunity bars compensatory damages claims.
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January 15, 2026
Ex-CEO Of COVID Vax Maker Accused Of Insider Trading
New York Attorney General Letitia James on Thursday sued the former CEO of healthcare contractor Emergent BioSolutions Inc., alleging insider trading amid troubles manufacturing a COVID-19 vaccine, while signing a $900,000 settlement with the company over its approval of an executive trading plan.
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January 15, 2026
Gov't Contractor Says Insurers Wrongfully Inflated Premiums
A contractor for the federal government said it should not have to pay an additional $1.7 million premium for workers' compensation policies issued by units of the Hartford, telling a Connecticut federal court that the retroactive charge was caused by the wrongful reclassification of hundreds of employees.
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January 15, 2026
$332M Colgate-Palmolive Pension Deal Nabs Final Nod
A New York federal judge handed final approval to a $332 million deal ending a class action accusing Colgate-Palmolive of shorting retirees who opted for lump-sum payments, but has yet to rule on the pensioners' attorneys' bid for $99 million in fees.
Areas of Coverage
- LITIGATION
- ERISA class actions
- Executive compensation disputes
- Health benefits suits
- Retirement benefits suits
- Worker misclassification actions
- Tax disputes over retirement plans and executive compensation
- Workers’ compensation suits
- AGENCIES
- Internal Revenue Service
- U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
- U.S. Department of Labor
- POLICY & REGULATION
- Employee Retirement Income Security Act
- Family and Medical Leave Act
- Affordable Care Act
- State and federal employee benefits and executive compensation legislation and regulation
- PROFILES
- Personnel moves
- Profiles of employee benefits practices
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- Policymakers at federal and state agencies
- Judges and court staff across the U.S.
- Professors, students, and library staff at every accredited law school in the U.S.
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