The U.S. Department of Labor's recent guidance on how to comply with federal laws requiring parity in health plan coverage between behavioral and physical healthcare provides critical new details on the agency's narrowed set of enforcement priorities. Here are three takeaways from the guidance.
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3 Takeaways From EBSA's New Health Parity Guidance Docs

By Kellie Mejdrich

The U.S. Department of Labor's recent guidance on how to comply with federal laws requiring parity in health plan coverage between behavioral and physical healthcare provides critical new details on the agency's narrowed set of enforcement priorities. Here are three takeaways from the guidance.

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Ex-Tech Co. Workers Nab Class Cert. In 401(k) Fee Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A duo of former NCR Corp. workers can represent a 15,000-member class in their lawsuit accusing the company's retirement plan committee of saddling the employee 401(k) plan with excessive recordkeeping fees, a Georgia federal judge ruled.

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RV Co. Reaches Deal With DOL In ESOP Row

By Katherine Smith

A recreational vehicle company and its executives have agreed to settle a U.S. Department of Labor suit alleging they improperly allowed its employee stock ownership plan to be overcharged in a $105 million deal, according to an Arizona federal court filing.

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X Wins Arbitration Bid In $500M Severance Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A former Twitter employee must arbitrate a suit seeking more than $500 million in severance the company promised after Elon Musk's takeover, a Delaware federal court ruled Friday, rejecting the worker's argument that the company had already refused arbitration.

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LITIGATION

9th Circ. Leaves VA On Hook For Homeless Vet Housing

By Tom Lotshaw

The full Ninth Circuit Friday refused to revisit a ruling requiring the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to build supportive housing for homeless disabled veterans, sparking dissents that accused judges of swapping their robes for hard hats and "bulldozing" established disability law.

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Mass. Justices Eye Hardship Factor In Pension Loss Cases

By Carolyn Muyskens

Massachusetts' highest court seemed open Friday to taking financial circumstances into account in deciding whether two former public employees should lose their pensions for committing overtime fraud, although one justice worried doing so would "invite chaos."

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CVS Renews Bid To Escape Investors' AI Use Suit

By Jessica Corso

CVS Health Corp. wants a second shot at dismissing a lawsuit accusing it of inflating its revenues through the use of artificial intelligence, arguing investors haven't shown it was using the technology to deny prior authorization requests. 

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Attorneys Using AI May Have Ethical Duty To Redact Docs

The trajectory of legal ethics guidance in recent years strongly suggests that as redaction technology becomes more accessible, the failure to use it when uploading highly confidential materials into artificial intelligence tools will become increasingly difficult to defend as reasonable, say attorneys at Lewis Brisbois.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

Big Biz Coalition Backs Litigation Funding Disclosure Rule

By Ryan Boysen

Big U.S. businesses and insurers like Amazon, Anthropic, Chubb and Walmart asked the federal judiciary on Monday to tighten disclosure requirements for litigation finance, claiming the lack of guardrails allows funders to operate "in the shadows."

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Indiana Atty Hit With $10K Sanction Over False Citations

By Andrea Keckley

An Indiana federal judge on Friday adopted a magistrate judge's recommendation to sanction a local attorney $10,000 after finding that five briefs in a consumer credit case included citations to nonexistent cases.

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Jackson Lewis Removes Ex-Atty's Bias Suit To Federal Court

By Patrick Hoff

Jackson Lewis PC has moved a former associate's suit accusing the firm of refusing to accommodate her temporary work restrictions following her medical leave to California federal court, saying state court wasn't the right venue for dispute.

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Bove Rejects Recusal Bid Tied To DOJ Whistleblower Claims

By Courtney Bublé

U.S. Circuit Judge Emil Bove declined Monday to recuse himself in a Third Circuit immigration case, saying the attorneys for the petitioner are "recycling a failed pre-confirmation political smear" on him.

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State Farm Attorney Sanctioned $999.99 For AI Hallucinations

By Jonathan Capriel

An attorney for State Farm who filed several motions citing nonexistent cases and fabricated quotes generated by AI software must pay a $999.99 sanction, a Los Angeles judge ruled, an amount one cent below the threshold that would have triggered a mandatory notice to the State Bar of California under state law.

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Brief

Ex-Moses & Singer Partner Gets 10 Months For Tax Crimes

By Craig Clough

A Connecticut federal judge Monday sentenced a former Moses & Singer LLP partner to 10 months of imprisonment and ordered him to pay more than $3.1 million for failing to file personal income tax returns, the U.S. attorney's office announced.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week saw disputes over allegedly fabricated board approvals at a telecom infrastructure startup, insider trading and child safety at Roblox Corp. and ownership of artificial intelligence technology used in legal proceedings.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Akerman LLP

Alston & Bird

Bernstein Litowitz

Blank Rome

Bleichmar Fonti

Brown Goldstein

Christensen Law LLC

Cummins & White

Engstrom Lee

Faegre Drinker

Fennemore

Foley & Lardner

Groom Law Group

Hodgson Russ

Holland & Knight

Jackson Lewis PC

Kamerman Uncyk

Lanier Law Firm

Lewis Brisbois

McDermott Will & Schulte

Morgan & Morgan PA

Morgan Lewis

Moses & Singer

Musick Peeler

Paganelli Law Group

Robins Kaplan

Robinson & Cole

Seyfarth Shaw

Sidley Austin

Spencer Fane

Wachtell Lipton

Wenzel Fenton

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Amazon.com Inc.

American Bar Association

Anthropic PBC

Atlas Energy LP

Bauer Inc.

Burke Inc.

CVS Health Corp.

Capital One Financial Corp.

ClearList LLC

Compass Minerals International, Inc.

Experian PLC

Google LLC

International Legal Finance Association

JAMS Inc.

Kubota Corporation

Lawyers for Civil Justice

Microsoft Corp.

NCR Atleos Corp.

NCR Corp.

NCR Voyix Corp.

OpenAI OpCo LLC

Public Counsel

Reliance Trust Co.

Roblox Corp.

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.

SolarWinds Corp.

State Bar of California

State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co.

Target Corp.

Tesla Inc.

Thomson Reuters Corp.

Toyota Motor Corp.

Twitter Inc.

U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Walmart Inc.

X Corp.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Delaware Court of Chancery

Employee Benefits Security Administration

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Connecticut

U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

U.S. Department of Homeland Security

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. Department of Labor

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs

U.S. District Court for the Central District of California

U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona

U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut

U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Southern District of Indiana