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Attys Want To See Examples In New Mental Health Parity Rule

By Kellie Mejdrich

The Trump administration's plans to promulgate new regulations governing mental health parity requirements for employee health plans are currently causing headaches for benefits attorneys, but a rule that includes specific examples could ultimately ease compliance burdens for retirement plan sponsors.

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Eyewear Co. Wins Dismissal Of Ex-Workers' 401(k) Suit

By Kellie Mejdrich

A Texas federal judge agreed to toss a suit against an eyewear company from 401(k) participants who claimed they lost millions on an underperforming stable value fund investment, holding the complaint lacked appropriate fund comparisons and didn't substantiate allegations of a deficient management process.

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Genworth Says 4th Circ. Panel Right To Decertify 401(k) Class

By Kellie Mejdrich

An insurance company urged the Fourth Circuit not to review a panel's earlier decision unraveling certification for more than 4,000 of the insurance company's 401(k) plan participants on claims they lost millions from underperforming BlackRock Inc. target date funds, arguing against two ex-workers' bid for en banc review.

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Mich. Health System Inks $1.9M Deal To End ERISA Suit

By Grace Elletson

A Michigan health system agreed to pay $1.9 million to resolve a suit claiming it failed to kick an underperforming investment fund from its workers' retirement plan, causing employees to lose out on millions in savings.

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AARP, Others Back Intel Workers In High Court 401(k) Fight

By Katryna Perera

AARP and other retirement and investor advocates are supporting former Intel employees who allege their employee 401(k) savings were dragged down by underperforming investments, telling the U.S. Supreme Court the Ninth Circuit erred in requiring the plaintiffs to identify a "meaningful benchmark" for comparison to their lagging funds.

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Kansas Expands Tax Credits For Employer Childcare Costs

By Zak Kostro

Kansas expanded tax credits for employers' expenses related to providing childcare for employees' children under a bill signed by the governor.

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Judge Publicly Scolds 'Disgraced' Ex-Prosecutor For AI Errors

By Hayley Fowler

A North Carolina federal judge has eviscerated a former federal prosecutor in a public reprimand for his use of artificial intelligence to draft a response brief that was riddled with hallucinations, calling out the prosecutor's "lack of candor" and saying he "disgraced not only himself, but also the entire office he formerly served."

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Union Urges Toss Of Tobacco Co.'s Retiree Health Fight

By Emily Brill

A North Carolina federal judge should let a tobacco workers' union keep its win in a retiree healthcare fight with the company that makes Winston and Salem cigarettes, the union argued, saying the company's challenge to a November arbitration award can't proceed because it wasn't properly filed.

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Ex-PR Director Seeks Early Win In Vacation Pay Delay Suit

By Benjamin Morse

A former director of public relations and marketing for an automotive company urged a North Carolina federal court to grant her an early win on her remaining wage claim, saying the company failed to timely pay accrued vacation after her termination.

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Hartford HealthCare Misused Privilege, Teamsters Plan Says

By Aaron Keller

Hartford HealthCare should be forced to produce 182 documents withheld under the attorney-client privilege from an antitrust lawsuit, say a Teamsters health plan and a transit district that claim the hospital group is exercising monopoly power over regional health services markets within Connecticut.

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Anti-Pot Group Says CMS Violated APA With Hemp Program

By Mike Curley

A group of advocates opposed to legal cannabis, as well as a cannabinoid company and two individuals, are fighting the government's bid to halt their challenge to a program to give Medicare beneficiaries access to federally legal hemp products, saying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services violated federal law by instituting the program without notice or comment.

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Federal 401(k) Plan Would Create Fiduciary Litigation Risks

President Donald Trump recently previewed an initiative to make a public 401(k)-style plan option available to all American workers who lack access to an employer-sponsored retirement plan, raising novel and complex litigation issues that merit careful attention, say attorneys at Willkie.

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GrayRobinson Sued Over 'Reckless' Data Security Measures

By Adrian Cruz

GrayRobinson PA has been hit with a proposed class action accusing the Florida-based firm of negligence following the revelation of a March 2025 data breach that exposed the personal data of around 65,000 people.

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Comey Indicted Again As Feds Call Seashell Message 'Threat'

By Phillip Bantz

Former FBI director James Comey was again indicted Tuesday by the Trump administration, this time over a social media post last year of an image of seashells arranged on a North Carolina beach to form the message "86 47," which prosecutors characterized as a threat of violence against the president.

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Maurene Comey Can Sue DOJ Over Firing, Judge Rules

By Phillip Bantz

Former Manhattan federal prosecutor Maurene Comey can move forward with her lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's administration fired her because she is the daughter of ex-FBI director and Trump's perceived enemy James B. Comey, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

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ADT Blasts 'Speculative' Bid To DQ Ogletree From Bias Case

By Gina Kim

ADT LLC urged a Georgia federal judge on Monday to reject an attorney's motion to disqualify Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC from defending it against discrimination claims while concurrently defending Microsoft Corp. in the attorney's own pregnancy bias suit, arguing the two matters are wholly separate and unrelated so there's no conflict. 

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Nadine Menendez Says Feds Need To 'Look Into The Mirror'

By George Woolston

Nadine Menendez dug into her bid for bail while she appeals her conviction on a bribery scheme carried out with her ex-politician husband, telling a New York federal court that prosecutors refuse to own up to their handling of the "forced withdrawal" of her counsel.

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Teleflex Settles Catheter Patent Case Against Medtronic

By Elliot Weld

Medical device company Teleflex and Medtronic have reached a settlement to end a catheter patent dispute from which a judge recused himself after explaining he was "at a loss" on how to proceed.

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