A funeral services provider will pay $2 million to settle a class action claiming it cost employees millions in retirement savings by loading its 401(k) plan with expensive funds and lofty administrative costs, according to a Friday filing in Texas federal court.
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Funeral Co. To Pay $2M To Resolve Workers' 401(k) Fee Suit

By Patrick Hoff

A funeral services provider will pay $2 million to settle a class action claiming it cost employees millions in retirement savings by loading its 401(k) plan with expensive funds and lofty administrative costs, according to a Friday filing in Texas federal court.

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2nd Circ. Nixes Cigna Retirees' Bid For Added Discovery

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Second Circuit refused to restart proceedings in a class action from Cigna retirees who challenged changes to their pensions, ruling Friday that a lower court was correct to hold that the ex-workers hadn't shown the insurer was disregarding orders to reform their retirement plan. 

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Howard U. Inks $1.3M Deal To Close ERISA Mortality Data Suit

By Grace Elletson

Howard University has brokered a settlement valued at $1.3 million to resolve a suit claiming it improperly used mortality data from the 80s to calculate retirees' benefit payments, causing workers to receive less money than they should have.

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Ex-Intel Workers Urge Justices To Revive 401(k) Fund Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

Former Intel employees urged the U.S. Supreme Court to revive their suit alleging their employee 401(k) savings were dragged down by underperforming investments, arguing the Ninth Circuit's requirement that allegations of subpar funds also include a meaningful benchmark for comparison didn't align with federal benefits law.

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LITIGATION

Ex-Workday Atty Ends Bias Suit Following Settlement Talks

By Emily Sawicki

A former in-house attorney for human resources giant Workday has agreed to drop what remains of an employment discrimination suit he launched against his former employer in 2023.

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Union Fund Says Allied Owes $427K For Left-Out Workers

By Emily Brill

A Teamsters healthcare fund has asked a New York federal judge to award it a pretrial win on claims that Allied Aviation Services Inc. owes it about $427,000, saying the airline fueling company owes the money to cover eight workers the company forgot to enroll in the fund.

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Cigna Plan Members Say HIPAA Notice Backs Privacy Claims

By P.J. D'Annunzio

A group of Cigna health plan participants who claimed the company failed to protect their private health information when it tracked their website activities told a Pennsylvania federal judge that the insurance giant should not be allowed to dodge new allegations that their HIPAA rights were violated.

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Blue Cross Licensee Seeks Exit From Claims Practices Suit

By Rachel Konieczny

A Blue Cross licensee told a Colorado federal judge that it has "no control" over Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield's provider network and therefore shouldn't have to face a treatment facilities operator's suit alleging it violated federal benefits and mental health parity laws.

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EXPERT ANALYSIS

Steps To Consider As DOJ Launches Fraud Division

The establishment this month of the National Fraud Enforcement Division within the U.S. Department of Justice is a significant reorganization that suggests an increase in enforcement activity involving federally funded programs but leaves a number of important questions unanswered, say attorneys at Crowell & Moring.

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LEGAL INDUSTRY

ABA Settles Scholarship Suit After Disavowing Racial Criteria

By Grace Elletson

The American Bar Association struck a deal to end a suit claiming a scholarship program for racial and ethnic minorities discriminated against white applicants, in line with a vow it made last year that its programs would be race-neutral, according to a filing Monday in Illinois federal court.

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2nd Trump Judicial Nominee Questioned Over Fla. State Case

By Courtney Bublé

For the second time in a year, a judicial nominee for a Florida federal court is under scrutiny for allegedly presiding over a state level case involving President Donald Trump while being considered for a federal judgeship.

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Reed Smith Targeted In Eletson Gas Ownership Fracas

By Caroline Simson

Reed Smith LLP and two of its partners are facing a $262 million lawsuit in a long-running and bitter dispute over ownership of an international gas shipping company, as well as other issues that remain unresolved following the vacatur of an underlying $102 million arbitral award for fraud.

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Alabama Justices Toss Case Over Atty's AI-Hallucinated Briefs

By Lauren Berg

The Alabama Supreme Court tossed an appeal and sanctioned a Mobile, Alabama, attorney for filing "grossly deficient" briefs that contained multiple inaccurate legal citations that the justices attributed to artificial intelligence "hallucinations."

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Justices Deny Ramey Appeal Of Sanctions In Google IP Case

By Ryan Davis

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to review $255,000 in sanctions on embattled attorney William Ramey and a client for bringing what a California judge said was a frivolous patent suit against Google, turning down his appeal arguing the decision used the wrong legal standard.

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Analysis

How A Rush To Trial Paid Off With A Rare FCPA Acquittal

By Phillip Bantz

A defense strategy to fast-track the trial in a yearslong criminal foreign bribery case against a Mexican businessman in Texas appeared to backfire when he was convicted and sent to prison last year, but the gamble ultimately paid off when a judge permanently tossed the case earlier this month.

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Toss Of Atty's LVMH Claim 'Problematic,' 2nd Circ. Judge Says

By Pete Brush

A Second Circuit judge said Monday that he is having a "hard time" understanding how the firing of a LVMH lawyer wasn't connected to her earlier harassment allegations, indicating a willingness to revive retaliation claims against the luxury goods giant.

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Catching Up With Delaware's Chancery Court

By Jarek Rutz

The Delaware Chancery Court this past week tackled a fresh mix of deal litigation, procedural disputes and fiduciary duty claims, with several rulings and filings underscoring the court's continued focus on contractual precision, forum enforcement and the limits of stockholder challenges.

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LAW FIRMS IN TODAY'S NEWS

Armbrecht Jackson

Bailey & Glasser

Baker & Hostetler

Breazeale Sachse

Consovoy McCarthy

Crowell & Moring

Elam & Burke

Forchelli Deegan

Gordon Rees

Goulston & Storrs

Groom Law Group

Gupta Wessler

HWG LLP

Hicks Thomas

Hogan Lovells

Holland & Hart

Hunton Andrews

Jackson Lewis PC

Jenner & Block

Kilpatrick Townsend

Law Office of Chris R. Miltenberger

Law Office of Max Rodriguez

Lawfair LLC

Loretta A. Preska

Morgan Lewis

Morrison & Foerster

Nelson Mullins

Norton Rose

Ogletree Deakins

Orrick Herrington

Pearl Schneider Young

Perkins Coie

Proskauer Rose

Quinn Emanuel

R. McConnell Group PLLC

Ramey LLP

Reed Smith

Saul Ewing

Schlichter Bogard

Seyfarth Shaw

Siri & Glimstad

Stradley Ronon

Tarter Krinsky

The Barton Firm LLP

Webb Law Group APC

Wenzel Fenton

Williams & Connolly

COMPANIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

APC

Affordable Care LLC

Allied Aviation Services Inc.

American Bar Association

Apple Inc.

AssuredPartners Inc.

Ayala Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Blue Cross of Idaho Health Service

Cisco Systems Inc.

Cisneros

Google LLC

Harvard University

Intel Corp.

LVMH Moet Hennessy

London Court of International Arbitration

Masimo Corp.

National Association of Realtors

Philo Inc.

Renesas Electronics Corp.

Tesaro Inc.

The Cigna Group

Walt Disney Parks & Resorts Worldwide Inc.

Wells Fargo & Co.

Workday Inc.

World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.

YouTube Inc.

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES IN TODAY'S NEWS

Delaware Court of Chancery

Government of Mexico

Internal Revenue Service

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Texas

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

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

U.S. Department of Justice

U.S. District & Bankruptcy Courts of Southern District of Texas

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

U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

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

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

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida

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

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

U.S. Senate

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the District of Colorado

United States District Court for the District of Nevada