Eleven states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration Labor Department on Thursday, fighting a change in healthcare benefit rules they say will allow insurers and private employers to skirt Affordable Care Act regulations such as required coverage for preexisting conditions.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit reversed summary judgment for Catholic Health Initiatives, because an ERISA plan may not pay for medical and surgical patients’ stays at licensed skilled nursing facilities while denying the same benefits to mental health patients for their stays at residential treatment facilities.
Read moreEleven Dr Pepper Snapple drivers filed a class action against their employer Tuesday claiming the company illegally forces workers into expensive COBRA health care coverage to break strikes.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday indicated he would keep alive a five-year-old proposed class action accusing a hospital system with ties to the Catholic Church of exploiting a religious exemption in federal law to underfund its employees’ pensions by $1.5 billion.
Read moreWorkers claim in a federal complaint that Huntington Bancshares propped up its “failing mutual fund business” by overinvesting their retirement and savings plans in overly expensive Huntington products.
Read moreA class of patients who were denied coverage for mental health and substance abuse treatment may take their claims against a benefits administrator to trial, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Reviving claims over a defunct airline’s pension plan, the Second Circuit found Tuesday that a former World Airways worker sued the Teamsters union within the legal timeframe.
Read moreThe exemption in federal pension law for church retirement plans should apply even to plans not initially established by a church, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
Read moreA man with an acute eating disorder has filed a class action against Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, accusing the health care giant of refusing to cover his medically necessary residential treatment program as it does for other types of mental illness.
Read moreA former employee of the largest private money manager in the world says in a federal class action that the company violated ethics rules by putting employees’ investments into company-run funds to rack up fees and boost profits.
Read moreA class of retirement plan participants and beneficiaries claims in a federal lawsuit that Essentia Health did not monitor and control the plan’s escalating costs, causing it to lose millions of dollars.
Read moreOn remand from the Supreme Court, the Ninth Circuit on Friday gave employees and former employees another shot at seeking millions of dollars from Edison International for failing to monitor their retirement investments.
Read moreThe Supreme Court said it will decide whether a federal pension law’s exemption for church retirement plans applies if the plan was not initially established by a church.
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