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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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December 08, 2025
11th Circ. Vacates Benefits Ruling In Black Lung Case
The Eleventh Circuit on Monday vacated a ruling that awarded survivors benefits to the widow of a railroad engineer who died after yearslong exposure to coal dust, finding the U.S. Department of Labor review board wrongly determined that a preparation plant was part of an underground coal mine.
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December 08, 2025
4th Circ. Backs EIDP In Dispute Over Annuity Reductions
The Fourth Circuit backed agricultural chemical giant EIDP Inc. and its retirement plan administrator in a Monday opinion, finding that unambiguous contract language doomed the revival of a lawsuit from a retired employee who said his monthly benefit was unfairly reduced.
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December 08, 2025
Ex-Kellogg Worker's Suit Over 401(k) Fees Tossed For Good
Kellogg escaped a former employee's proposed class action alleging the food manufacturer lost its workers millions in retirement savings because of excessive recordkeeping fees, after a Michigan federal judge ruled Monday that the allegations failed to state a claim for violating federal benefits law.
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December 08, 2025
NY Hotel Ordered To Pay $4.1M In Union Benefits Dispute
A Manhattan hotel operator must hand over $4.1 million to a hotel and hospital workers union, a New York federal judge ruled, finding that the operator has failed to respond to accusations that it owes money to multiple health benefit funds.
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December 08, 2025
Schnader Harrison ERISA Class Attys Seek Cut Of $675K Deal
Class members who scored a $675,000 settlement resolving their case alleging the defunct firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP misdirected money meant for attorneys' retirement accounts have asked a Pennsylvania federal judge for counsel fees in the amount of one-third of the settlement.
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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- Human resources professionals
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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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