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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
