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Benefits

  • April 08, 2025

    Pa. Justices Probe Limits To Workers' Comp Immunity

    Pennsylvania's Supreme Court questioned the fairness of state law offering broad immunity from liability to co-workers in workers' compensation cases, especially when injuries stemmed from acts that weren't immediately part of the job, as a company co-owner argued Tuesday that the "straightforward" language in the law gives him that protection.

  • April 08, 2025

    Starbucks Tears Into Missouri AG's 'Defective' DEI Lawsuit

    Starbucks urged a Missouri federal judge to toss a suit from the state's attorney general claiming the company employs diversity quotas that discriminate against white and male applicants, arguing the state hasn't presented any evidence that its diversity, equity and inclusion policies have negatively affected Missourians.

  • April 08, 2025

    9th Circ. Wary Of Judge Becoming 'King' Of Veteran Housing

    The Ninth Circuit appeared skeptical Tuesday of a California federal court's decision to establish control over a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs facility due to inadequate homelessness measures, with one panel member expressing concern the district judge gave himself the overbroad powers of a "king."

  • April 08, 2025

    Ballard Spahr Fired Atty For Taking Medical Leave, Suit Says

    A former attorney for Ballard Spahr LLP filed suit against the firm and the head of its employee benefits group Tuesday in New York federal court, claiming she was fired for taking medical leave and seeking a more flexible work schedule to deal with her epilepsy and a gastrointestinal condition. 

  • April 08, 2025

    Bernstein Litowitz, Kessler Topaz Seek To Lead GSK Investors

    Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP and Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check LLP are seeking lead counsel roles in a proposed securities class action against GSK PLC in Pennsylvania federal court, citing a long history of collaboration and billions recovered for shareholders.

  • April 08, 2025

    Justices Halt Order To Reinstate Federal Workers

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday hit pause on a California federal court order reinstating tens of thousands of probationary federal workers who were fired from six agencies, agreeing with the Trump administration that the nonprofit groups that obtained the order lack standing to challenge the firings. 

  • April 07, 2025

    AT&T Wants 401(k) Forfeiture Suit Tossed

    AT&T has asked a California federal judge to throw out an employee's suit regarding forfeited employer 401(k) contributions, arguing it has the right to determine how the abandoned funds are used as the plan sponsor.

  • April 07, 2025

    Verizon, State Street Say Pension Annuity Suit Claims Fall Flat

    Verizon Communications and its independent fiduciary State Street urged a New York federal judge to toss a proposed class action from Verizon retirees who challenged the conversion of their federally regulated pension benefits into annuity insurance contracts, arguing the allegations lacked standing and failed to state a claim.

  • April 07, 2025

    Former Workers Say X Corp. Refuses To Arbitrate Their Claims

    A group of former Twitter employees is trying to force the company now known as X to arbitrate the workers' challenges to allegedly unlawful actions taken after Elon Musk's acquisition of the platform, claiming the social media giant is preventing their cases from moving forward by refusing to pay the full arbitration fees.

  • April 07, 2025

    Ohio Hospital Illegally Conducted Mass Layoffs, Workers Say

    An Ohio hospital abruptly laid off more than 100 workers without notice and failed to pay many of those employees their final paychecks, a proposed class action filed in federal court said.

  • April 07, 2025

    Conn. Judge Pauses 'Staggering' Hospital Data Subpoena

    A Connecticut judge temporarily paused a subpoena seeking what a health nonprofit called "a staggering amount" of confidential patient data by a proposed class of Constitution State residents accusing Hartford HealthCare Corp. of monopolizing the state's healthcare industry, stating that the court must review the subpoena first.

  • April 07, 2025

    Whole Foods To Settle Bonus Manipulation Suit

    Whole Foods has agreed to resolve a lawsuit claiming the grocery chain rigged an employee bonus program to reduce payouts to workers, according to a filing in D.C. federal court.

  • April 07, 2025

    Woody Allen Resolves Private Chef's Military Leave Suit

    Woody Allen struck a deal with his former private chef to resolve his suit accusing the filmmaker of abruptly firing him after he took time off to participate in military exercises as a member of the U.S. Army Reserve, a filing in New York federal court said.

  • April 04, 2025

    Feds Say George Santos Should Spend 7 Years Behind Bars

    Federal prosecutors said Friday that former U.S. Rep. George Santos should spend 87 months — more than seven years — behind bars for his fraud and aggravated identity theft, a sentence that Santos' lawyers called "absurd," arguing instead that he shouldn't spend more than two years in prison.

  • April 04, 2025

    Split DC Circ. Denies Calif. Subsidies For Border Hospitals

    A split D.C. Circuit panel on Friday found it was not unconstitutional for California to exclude hospitals bordering the state from a program distributing supplemental payments to providers that serve Medi-Cal beneficiaries.

  • April 04, 2025

    US Bank Defeats Class Cert. In Early Retiree Benefits Suit

    A Minnesota federal judge on Friday rejected a bid to certify a class action for more than 2,000 U.S. Bank retirees accusing the bank of unlawfully reducing monthly pension payments for those taking early retirement, finding the proposed class had differing concerns that blocked classwide resolution.

  • April 04, 2025

    HHS Drops 11th Circ. Fight Over ACA Trans Rule Freeze

    The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agreed to drop its bid to overturn an order blocking it from enforcing regulations that extend the Affordable Care Act's anti-discrimination provisions to transgender individuals against Florida organizations, according to filings with the Eleventh Circuit.

  • April 04, 2025

    Ohio AG Takes Trans Care Limits Bid To State Justices

    Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has taken his bid to reinstate limits on gender-affirming care for transgender youths to the state's highest court and wants the law's enforcement to continue throughout his appeal.

  • April 04, 2025

    2nd Circ. Won't Revisit Benefit Math In Colgate ERISA Suit

    The Second Circuit refused Friday to rethink the methodology Colgate-Palmolive must use to recalculate retirement benefits for pensioners who said they were underpaid to the tune of $300 million, saying the issues raised by the company had already been decided.

  • April 04, 2025

    No Basis To Upend Time Bar On Veterans' Claims, DOJ Says

    Veterans challenging a federal appeals court's ruling that a six-year statute of limitations applies to retroactive combat-related special compensation that Congress has authorized can't show lawmakers intended otherwise, the federal government told the U.S. Supreme Court.

  • April 04, 2025

    Masimo Shareholder Vote Suit Against Founder Moved To Calif.

    A New York federal judge has transferred to California Masimo Corp.'s suit against its founder over allegations he manipulated a shareholder vote at the medical technology company, finding that the "locus of operative facts" warrants the move.

  • April 04, 2025

    Pension Fund Miscalculated Co.'s $23M Exit Fee, Judge Says

    A Teamsters pension fund erred when it determined that a concrete company owed $23 million for withdrawing from the plan, an Illinois federal judge ruled, saying an arbitrator needs to reassess the calculation and give the employer proper credit for other payments made.

  • April 04, 2025

    Pension Annuity Rulings Leave Attorneys Looking For Clarity

    Benefits attorneys say they'll be watching the circuits, and perhaps the nation's highest court, for clarity after recent divergent decisions in cases accusing defense and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed Martin and aluminum giant Alcoa of violating federal benefits law by converting pension benefits into annuity insurance contracts.

  • April 03, 2025

    Optum, Express Scripts Want Judge Ousted From Opioid MDL

    Pharmacy benefit managers Optum and Express Scripts say the Ohio federal judge overseeing multidistrict opioid litigation should recuse himself because he "regularly communicates" with plaintiffs' attorneys in the litigation and is biased in favor of plaintiffs, according to a motion filed Wednesday.

  • April 03, 2025

    TV Star Dr. Oz Confirmed As New Medicare, Medicaid Leader

    The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted 53 to 43, along party lines, to confirm former talk show host and surgeon Dr. Mehmet Oz to be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

Expert Analysis

  • Nvidia Case's Potential Impact On Securities Class Actions

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    In Nvidia v. Ohman Fonder, the U.S. Supreme Court could strip lower courts of their long-standing ability and obligation to holistically weigh all relevant facts supporting plaintiffs' allegations of securities fraud, which would have a wide-ranging impact on securities fraud class actions in the U.S., say attorneys at Labaton Keller.

  • How Attorneys Can Break Free From Career Enmeshment

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    Ambitious attorneys can sometimes experience career enmeshment — when your sense of self-worth becomes unhealthily tangled up in your legal vocation — but taking the time to discover and realign with your core personal values can help you recover your identity, says Janna Koretz at Azimuth Psychological.

  • Short-Seller Implications Of 10th Circ.'s Overstock Decision

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    The Tenth Circuit's Oct. 15 decision in Overstock Securities Litigation provides clarity on the pleading standard for a market manipulation claim under the Exchange Act, and suggests that short sellers might not be able to rely on the fraud-on-the-market presumption typically invoked by securities plaintiffs, say attorneys at Paul Weiss.

  • Lawyers With Disabilities Are Seeking Equity, Not Pity

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    Attorneys living with disabilities face extra challenges — including the need for special accommodations, the fear of stigmatization and the risk of being tokenized — but if given equitable opportunities, they can still rise to the top of their field, says Kate Reder Sheikh, a former attorney and legal recruiter at Major Lindsey & Africa.

  • Employer Lessons From Mass. 'Bonus Not Wages' Ruling

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    In Nunez v. Syncsort, a Massachusetts state appeals court recently held that a terminated employee’s retention bonus did not count as wages under the state’s Wage Act, illustrating the nuanced ways “wages” are defined by state statutes and courts, say attorneys at Segal McCambridge.

  • Opinion

    Judicial Committee Best Venue For Litigation Funding Rules

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    The Advisory Committee on Civil Rules' recent decision to consider developing a rule for litigation funding disclosure is a welcome development, ensuring that the result will be the product of a thorough, inclusive and deliberative process that appropriately balances all interests, says Stewart Ackerly at Statera Capital.

  • The Strategic Advantages Of Appointing A Law Firm CEO

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    The impact on law firms of the recent CrowdStrike outage underscores that the business of law is no longer merely about providing supplemental support for legal practice — and helps explain why some law firms are appointing dedicated, full-time CEOs to navigate the challenges of the modern legal landscape, says Jennifer Johnson at Calibrate Strategies.

  • Series

    Beekeeping Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    The practice of patent law and beekeeping are not typically associated, but taking care of honeybees has enriched my legal practice by highlighting the importance of hands-on experience, continuous learning, mentorship and more, says David Longo at Oblon McClelland.

  • Tobacco Surcharge Suits Spotlight Wellness Reg Compliance

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    A mounting wave of tobacco-user surcharge litigation against employee benefit plans highlights compliance challenges associated with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act wellness regulations, and reminds plan sponsors to ask existential questions about the utility of their wellness programs, say Finn Pressly and Lesley Wolf at Ballard Spahr.

  • What To Know About New Employment Laws In Fla.

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    Florida employers should familiarize themselves with recent state laws, and also federal legislation, on retirement benefits, teen labor and heat exposure, with special attention to prohibitions against minors performing dangerous tasks, as outlined in the Fair Labor Standards Act, say Katie Molloy and Cayla Page at Greenberg Traurig.

  • Opinion

    Legal Institutions Must Warn Against Phony Election Suits

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    With two weeks until the election, bar associations and courts have an urgent responsibility to warn lawyers about the consequences of filing unsubstantiated lawsuits claiming election fraud, says Elise Bean at the Carl Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy.

  • How Cos. Can Build A Strong In-House Pro Bono Program

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    During this year’s pro bono celebration week, companies should consider some key pointers to grow and maintain a vibrant in-house program for attorneys to provide free legal services for the public good, says Mary Benton at Alston & Bird.

  • Series

    Home Canning Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Making my own pickles and jams requires seeing a process through from start to finish, as does representing clients from the start of a dispute at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board through any appeals to the Federal Circuit, says attorney Kevin McNish.

  • How Project 2025 Could Upend Federal ESG Policies

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    If implemented, Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation's policy playbook for a Republican presidential administration, would likely seek to deploy antitrust law to target ESG initiatives, limit pension fund managers' focus to pecuniary factors and spell doom for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's climate rule, say attorneys at Mintz.

  • Use The Right Kind Of Feedback To Help Gen Z Attorneys

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    Generation Z associates bring unique perspectives and expectations to the workplace, so it’s imperative that supervising attorneys adapt their feedback approach in order to help young lawyers learn and grow — which is good for law firms, too, says Rachael Bosch at Fringe Professional Development.

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