The Eleventh Circuit's decision to reopen a suit from a former Royal Caribbean worker claiming 401(k) participants lost millions on underperforming target-date funds could make it easier for plaintiffs to get to trial in cases accusing companies of retirement plan investment picks that violate federal benefits law, attorneys said.
The Eleventh Circuit's decision to reopen a suit from a former Royal Caribbean worker claiming 401(k) participants lost millions on underperforming target-date funds could make it easier for plaintiffs to get to trial in cases accusing companies of retirement plan investment picks that violate federal benefits law, attorneys said.
A Colorado federal judge declined Friday to let board members of radiology company Envision escape a suit headed to a bench trial over claims they orchestrated an inflated $163.7 million stock sale to an employee stock ownership plan, ruling it's too contested whether they had control of the deal.
An Ohio federal judge tossed a doctor's suit claiming he was wrongfully denied pension benefits when UC Health bungled his years of qualifying service, ruling the calculations that concluded he was not eligible for payments were fair game under the plan's terms.
Three excess insurers owe no coverage for a $40 million settlement that a church retirement plan administrator reached to resolve claims of self-dealing, a California federal court ruled, finding the claims were connected to wrongful prior acts.
The Sixth Circuit Friday revived a long-running securities suit brought by the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System against Freddie Mac and several of its former executives, holding that a district court erred in granting a summary judgment win for the government-backed enterprise and also denying class certification.
A coalition of restaurant, retail and hotel industry groups has urged a New Jersey federal court to strike down a state law requiring businesses to pay a fine when their employees are enrolled in the state Medicaid program, arguing the statute conflicts with federal benefits law.
An Ohio health system has been hit with a proposed class action over its contractual restraints that a union health plan alleges prevent cheaper insurance providers from gaining a foothold in the market.
A New Jersey federal judge tossed legal malpractice claims against attorney Natalie Khawam Case and the law firm she founded, finding that a group of Gold Star families could not show that their underlying allegations against the U.S. Army would have survived the Federal Tort Claims Act's limits on suing the government.
The Delaware Chancery Court’s recent verdict in favor of WWE investors may be the most carefully calibrated spoliation sanctions decision in recent memory, and it should reshape how counsel approach their motions — including in federal court, says Ricky Weingarten at Slarskey.
During a break in a jury trial Monday over states' claims Meta hid social media's harm, states' counsel urged a California federal judge to require Meta to re-review all of its attorney-client privilege designations, arguing that "it seems actually logically impossible" that Meta described the wrong standard in only a single document.
A voting rights nonprofit is accusing the U.S. Department of Justice of stonewalling a request for records on the Trump administration's attempted "anti-weaponization fund," claiming that the agency has spent the summer unlawfully ducking a Freedom of Information Act submission.
A Houston-based personal injury law firm sought bankruptcy relief on Monday with more than $50 million in liabilities after a mass tort litigation marketing company sued for over $9 million in fees related to finding potential victims of water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
Multiple attorneys asked a Texas federal court to toss claims that they conspired to hijack 1,000 cases filed by hurricane survivors who had hired and built cases with a different firm, claiming the firm that brought the suit failed to plead a viable RICO claim.
The Delaware Chancery Court last week saw a wave of lawsuits involving corporate oversight, take-private deals, financing transactions, bankruptcy fallout, stockholder voting rights and disputes over control.
