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