Seattle’s new law requiring hotel owners to pay workers health benefits should be tossed out for violating ERISA, an industry group told a Ninth Circuit panel Monday.
Read moreAcademy Award winner Hilary Swank slapped the board of the SAG-AFTRA health plan with a federal lawsuit this week, accusing the board of denying coverage for the treatment of her recurring malignant ovarian cysts.
Read moreA local branch of the Service Employees International Union claims in a federal lawsuit that the Chicago Cubs did not provide materials needed for an audit of the baseball team’s pension plan.
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A federal judge tossed with prejudice an influential anti-tax group’s challenge to California’s state-sponsored retirement plan for private workers.
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Holding open the fiduciary-duty doors, the Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that participants in corporate retirement accounts can bring suits for account mismanagement if they don’t remember reading the required disclosures.
Read moreSending back a class action over how IBM handled employee retirement plans, the Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that arguments raised first at this stage merit consideration from the lower court.
Read moreCiting recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings, the Ninth Circuit reversed denial of Charles Schwab’s motion to compel arbitration in an ERISA class action on retirement plans.
Read moreA federal class action claims Aetna Life Insurance violates ERISA by refusing to cover lumbar artificial disc replacement surgery due to false claims that the surgery is “experimental and investigational.”
Read moreTaking up 11 new cases Friday on its way into summer hiatus, the Supreme Court stoked political passions this morning with the addition of cases about school choice and immigrant rights.
Read moreTaking up appeals by Comcast and Intel, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to resolve the fate of one $20 billion suit alleging a conspiracy to disadvantage television networks that are wholly black-owned, as well as a case involving retirement plans.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit affirmed that City National Bank engaged in self-dealing and breach of fiduciary duties in its employees’ 401(k) plans, compensating itself with self-approved fees from the plan’s assets.
Read moreDignity Health and its workers have with the help of a mediator reached a settlement “in principle” to end a six-year-old class action accusing the hospital system of underfunding its employee pension plan by $1.5 billion.
Read moreCalifornia’s state-sponsored retirement plan for private workers cleared a major hurdle Friday, with a federal judge tossing a lawsuit brought by an influential anti-tax group that hoped to kill the program before its July launch date.
Read moreMANHATTAN (CN) – Reviving securities fraud claims, the Second Circuit ruled Monday that IBM must face a suit by workers
Read moreA federal judge certified a class of employees who claim that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology charged excessive fees and made poor investments in their retirement plan.
Read moreEleven 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.
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