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Benefits

  • April 02, 2025

    9th Circ. Gives Ex-CoreLogic Worker 2nd Shot At 401(k) Suit

    The Ninth Circuit revived a suit Wednesday from a former CoreLogic worker who claimed the company stacked its retirement plan with costly and underperforming investment funds, ruling a district judge erred by tossing the case rather than giving the ex-worker a chance to revise his complaint.

  • April 02, 2025

    Amazon Worker Can't File Amended Military Leave Suit

    It's too late for a former Amazon employee to add a claim that the company put up barriers for workers requesting active duty leave in her suit accusing the commerce giant of failing to fully provide the paid leave for service member employees, a New York federal judge ruled.

  • April 02, 2025

    'Ashamed' COVID Fraudster Asks To Keep Firefighter Pension

    A former West Haven, Connecticut, municipal employee testified Wednesday that he is "ashamed" of stealing tens of thousands of dollars of COVID-19 relief money from the city, but he is asking a state court judge to prevent the attorney general's office from docking or revoking the pension that he separately earned as a New Haven firefighter.

  • April 02, 2025

    Cedars-Sinai To Pay $3M To End Retirement Plan Suit

    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to resolve a suit from current and former workers claiming the healthcare system loaded down its $2 billion retirement plan with high fees and poor-performing investment funds, according to a California federal court filing.

  • April 01, 2025

    Tesla Asks Del. Justices To Undo $176M Atty Fee 'Windfall'

    Tesla urged the Delaware Supreme Court on Tuesday to slash a $176 million attorney fee award granted as part of an excessive director compensation suit settlement, saying it amounts to a "windfall in a case that settled well before trial and after three years of only tepid litigation."

  • April 01, 2025

    7th Circ. Revives Officer's Back Pay Bid In ADA Row

    The Seventh Circuit reinstated Tuesday a former corrections officer's back pay request that was rejected by a lower court after a jury found the county sheriff he worked for violated disability bias law by subjecting him to an unnecessary medical exam, but didn't owe him any damages.

  • April 01, 2025

    Trump Admin Fights Wash.'s Bid To Expand Layoff Injunction

    The Trump administration has urged a California federal judge to reject the state of Washington's request to expand an injunction blocking federal agencies from firing probationary employees, saying the bid to broaden the order to other agencies is unnecessary and based on unfounded speculation of harm. 

  • April 01, 2025

    Tenn. PBM Statute Conflicts With ERISA, Judge Says

    Tennessee law requiring pharmacy benefits managers to accept "any willing pharmacies" into their network clashes with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a federal judge ruled, saying the state can't enforce its statute against McKee Foods Corp. or other plans governed by the federal benefits law.

  • April 01, 2025

    Printing Company Wins Suit Over $265M ESOP Sale

    An Illinois federal judge tossed a former printing company executive's suit claiming the business could have gotten a better price when selling its shares held in an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, for $265 million, ruling his case lacks evidence of self-interest or sabotage.

  • April 01, 2025

    9th Circ. Urged To Keep Capital Group 401(k) Suit In Court

    An employee retirement plan participant urged the Ninth Circuit to keep in court her proposed class action alleging 401(k) mismanagement by The Capital Group Cos., arguing a lower court correctly blocked an arbitration provision in the plan that waived statutory rights under federal benefits law.

  • April 01, 2025

    Former O'Hagan Meyer Partner Says Firm Owes Final Bonus

    A former O'Hagan Meyer partner says the firm stiffed him out of a final $71,000 bonus upon his departure in 2022. He's seeking triple damages under Massachusetts' wage law. 

  • March 31, 2025

    Lockheed Martin Can't Escape Retirees' 'De-Risking' Suit

    Aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin can't shed former employees' allegations it mismanaged a $9 billion employee pension plan by using an allegedly risky annuity provider to handle the plan on behalf of 31,000 beneficiaries, a Maryland federal judge has determined.

  • March 31, 2025

    Alcoa Retirees, Unions Win Block On Health Benefits Cutoff

    Aluminum producer Alcoa USA Corp. must provide lifetime healthcare benefits to a group of retirees who were represented by unions, an Indiana federal judge ruled, greenlighting an injunction that allows class members to retroactively seek payments for costs.

  • March 31, 2025

    Del. Legal Overhaul Won't Scuttle Key Rulings, Expert Says

    A longtime expert on Delaware's general corporation law disputed on Monday predictions that a recently signed legislative overhaul will upend dozens of important precedents in the state.

  • March 31, 2025

    NJ Panel Denies Double Pay For Union In COVID Case

    Members of the Jersey City Public Employees union are not entitled to double pay under the COVID-19 state of emergency declared by Gov. Phil Murphy on March 9, 2020, even though their contract calls for the increased compensation during such designations, a New Jersey appellate panel ruled Monday.

  • March 31, 2025

    Ex-Bridgewater Execs Forced To Arbitrate Discrimination Suit

    A Connecticut federal judge on Monday agreed to force arbitration of a dispute from two former Bridgewater Associates LP executives alleging discrimination against the multibillion-dollar asset management firm.

  • March 31, 2025

    Alcoa Gets Pension Annuity Suit Thrown Out, For Now

    A D.C. federal judge agreed to toss a proposed class action from Alcoa retirees who alleged the aluminum manufacturer put their pensions at unnecessary risk by converting their benefits into annuity insurance contracts, backing Alcoa's argument that the retirees lacked standing to sue.

  • March 31, 2025

    Ex-Workday Atty's Bias Claims Axed, Stock Dispute Kept Alive

    A California federal judge tossed a Black ex-Workday attorney's claims that he endured race and disability bias that culminated in the software vendor sending police to his house to conduct an unnecessary wellness check, but the judge allowed the attorney pursue claims that he was shorted on stock options.

  • March 29, 2025

    Up Next At High Court: Terror Liability, Health Provider Choice

    The U.S. Supreme Court will return to the bench this week to consider whether a federal law subjecting Palestinian government organizations to federal jurisdiction violates due process principles and if the Medicaid Act's provider choice provision allows individual benefit recipients to sue states over the disqualification of healthcare providers. 

  • March 28, 2025

    Adobe Beats Class Action Over Alleged Competitive Threats

    A New York federal judge has tossed a securities class action against Adobe Inc. alleging that the software company and its top brass misled shareholders about the competitive threat Adobe's products faced from a  user experience design tool developed by another company, saying the investors have failed to plead any actionable misstatements or knowledge of wrongdoing.

  • March 28, 2025

    Plan Administrator Wins Electric Co.'s Union Healthcare Fight

    An electric company can't use the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to claw back contributions to a union healthcare plan that weren't put toward benefits, a New York federal judge said Friday, tossing the company's suit against the plan's administrator.

  • March 28, 2025

    Del. Corporate Law Rework Might Upend Over 3 Dozen Cases

    Legislation pushed through Delaware's General Assembly last week has called into question dozens of corporate law precedents, including some of the state's most important, according to a Columbia Law School professor and researcher.

  • March 28, 2025

    13 Drugmakers Seek Dismissal Of Aetna's Price-Fixing Claims

    Thirteen pharmaceutical companies asked a Connecticut state judge to throw out health insurer Aetna Inc.'s suit alleging that they conspired to fix the prices of more than 100 generic medications, with most saying the Constitution State is not the proper forum for the claims.

  • March 28, 2025

    Labcorp Denied Early Win In 401(k) Fee Suit

    A North Carolina federal judge denied Labcorp's motion for an early win Friday in a class of employee 401(k) participants' suit alleging their retirement savings were mismanaged, citing the parties' factual disputes over whether recordkeeping fees and investment offerings violated federal benefits law.

  • March 28, 2025

    DXC Technology Dodges Investor Suit Over Integration Issues

     A Virginia federal judge has tossed an investor suit alleging that DXC Technology Co. and its top brass overhyped efforts to reduce restructuring and integration costs after acquiring several companies, finding that the plaintiffs failed to adequately allege any actionable false statements or knowledge of wrongdoing by the individual defendants.

Expert Analysis

  • After A Brief Hiccup, The 'Rocket Docket' Soars Back To No. 1

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    The Eastern District of Virginia’s precipitous 2022 fall from its storied rocket docket status appears to have been a temporary aberration, as recent statistics reveal that the court is once again back on top as the fastest federal civil trial court in the nation, says Robert Tata at Hunton.

  • Recruitment Trends In Emerging Law Firm Frontiers

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    BigLaw firms are facing local recruitment challenges as they increasingly establish offices in cities outside of the major legal hubs, requiring them to weigh various strategies for attracting talent that present different risks and benefits, says Tom Hanlon at Buchanan Law.

  • Series

    Glassblowing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    I never expected that glassblowing would strongly influence my work as an attorney, but it has taught me the importance of building a solid foundation for your work, learning from others and committing to a lifetime of practice, says Margaret House at Kalijarvi Chuzi.

  • What DOL Fiduciary Rule Means For Private Fund Managers

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    Attorneys at Ropes & Gray discuss how the U.S. Department of Labor's recently released final fiduciary rule, which revises the agency's 1975 regulation, could potentially cause private fund managers' current marketing practices and communications to be considered fiduciary advice, and therefore subject them to strict prohibitions.

  • How Associates Can Build A Professional Image

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    As hybrid work arrangements become the norm in the legal industry, early-career attorneys must be proactive in building and maintaining a professional presence in both physical and digital settings, ensuring that their image aligns with their long-term career goals, say Lana Manganiello at Equinox Strategy Partners and Estelle Winsett at Estelle Winsett Professional Image Consulting.

  • High Court's Abortion Pill Ruling Shuts Out Future Challenges

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    The U.S. Supreme Court's unanimous ruling in U.S. Food and Drug Administration v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine maintains the status quo for mifepristone access and rejects the plaintiffs' standing theories so thoroughly that future challenges from states or other plaintiffs are unlikely to be viable, say Jaime Santos and Annaka Nava at Goodwin.

  • Emerging Trends In ESG-Focused Securities Litigation

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    Based on a combination of shareholder pressure, increasing regulatory scrutiny and proposed rulemaking, there has been a proliferation of litigation over public company disclosures and actions regarding environmental, social, and governance factors — and the overall volume of such class actions will likely increase in the coming years, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • Firms Must Rethink How They Train New Lawyers In AI Age

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    As law firms begin to use generative artificial intelligence to complete lower-level legal tasks, they’ll need to consider new ways to train summer associates and early-career attorneys, keeping in mind the five stages of skill acquisition, says Liisa Thomas at Sheppard Mullin.

  • Think Like A Lawyer: Always Be Closing

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    When a lawyer presents their case with the right propulsive structure throughout trial, there is little need for further argument after the close of evidence — and in fact, rehashing it all may test jurors’ patience — so attorneys should consider other strategies for closing arguments, says Luke Andrews at Poole Huffman.

  • Series

    Playing Chess Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    There are many ways that chess skills translate directly into lawyer skills, but for me, the bigger career lessons go beyond the direct parallels — playing chess has shown me the value of seeing gradual improvement in and focusing deep concentration on a nonwork endeavor, says attorney Steven Fink.

  • 9th Circ. Clarifies ERISA Preemption For Healthcare Industry

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    The Ninth Circuit's recent ruling in Bristol SL Holdings v. Cigna notably clarifies the broad scope of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's preemption of certain state law causes of action, standing to benefit payors and health plan administrators, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Litigation Inspiration: Attys Can Be Heroic Like Olympians

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    Although litigation won’t earn anyone an Olympic medal in Paris this summer, it can be worthy of the same lasting honor if attorneys exercise focused restraint — seeking both their clients’ interests and those of the court — instead of merely pursuing every advantage short of sanctionable conduct, says Bennett Rawicki at Hilgers Graben.

  • Lean Into The 'Great Restoration' To Retain Legal Talent

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    As the “great resignation,” in which employees voluntarily left their jobs in droves, has largely dissipated, legal employers should now work toward the idea of a “great restoration,” adopting strategies to effectively hire, onboard and retain top legal talent, says Molly McGrath at Hiring & Empowering Solutions.

  • A Closer Look At Feds' Proposed Banker Compensation Rule

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    A recently proposed rule to limit financial institutions' ability to award incentive-based compensation for risk-taking may progress through the rulemaking process slowly due to the sheer number of regulators collaborating on the rule and the number of issues under consideration, say attorneys at Troutman Pepper.

  • Series

    Fishing Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Atop the list of ways fishing makes me a better lawyer is the relief it offers from the chronic stress of a demanding caseload, but it has also improved my listening skills and patience, and has served as an exceptional setting for building earnest relationships, says Steven DeGeorge​​​​​​​ at Robinson Bradshaw.

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