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January 31, 2025
Judge Blocks Symetra Life Policyholders' $32.5M Deal
A Washington federal court rejected a $32.5 million settlement bid brought by a proposed class of Symetra life insurance policyholders who accused the life insurer of using undisclosed nonmortality factors to overcharge monthly rates, noting the proposed settlement notice leaves information on the class counsel's cost reimbursement blank.
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January 31, 2025
Ex-Paramount Worker Says NY WARN Covers Remote Jobs
A former Paramount employee accusing the studio of violating New York's WARN Act by laying off over 300 New York City-based workers without 90 days' notice urged a federal court to preserve his suit, saying Friday that the law covers him even though he worked remotely from California.
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January 31, 2025
Judge Grants Fraud Retrial After Witness 'Forgot to Shut Up'
A Florida federal judge ordered a new trial in an insurance fraud case against the former medical director of a West Palm Beach sober living home, saying his 2022 conviction was tainted when the government's star witness "forgot to shut up" during testimony plagued with lies.
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February 14, 2025
Law360 Seeks Members For Its 2025 Editorial Boards
Law360 is looking for avid readers of our publications to serve as members of our 2025 editorial advisory boards.
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January 31, 2025
State Street Must Face Suit Over Paper Co.'s ESOP Valuation
State Street Bank can't escape a suit claiming it allowed executives at a defunct paper company to sell overpriced shares to an employee stock ownership plan, a Wisconsin federal judge ruled, rejecting the firm's assertion that its stock valuation didn't cause any harm.
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January 30, 2025
PayPal Beats Investor Suit Over Inflated User Metrics Claims
A New Jersey federal court has dismissed a proposed class action that accused PayPal of misleading investors with user metrics inflated by a scam that took advantage of a PayPal promotion that paid people to set up new accounts, saying the investors did not show PayPal knew of the alleged scam when certain statements were made.
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January 30, 2025
Retired Atty Says Schwab, Others Flubbed His Contributions
A retired attorney said companies that managed his individual retirement plan, including Charles Schwab and Barnes & Thornburg LLP, hampered his tax savings by incorrectly classifying his pretax retirement contributions as posttax contributions, according to a lawsuit filed in an Indiana district court.
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January 30, 2025
Biz Groups Back 2nd Circ. Appeal In Morgan Stanley Pay Fight
Business trade groups including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce wrote in support of Morgan Stanley's Second Circuit appeal in a proposed class action from ex-advisers seeking additional deferred compensation, backing the investment bank's argument that an arbitrator should get to determine if federal benefits law applies to the arrangements.
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January 30, 2025
Symetra To Pay $2M To End Structured Settlement Suit
Insurance conglomerate Symetra has agreed to pay more than $2.1 million to settle a proposed class action in Washington federal court accusing two Symetra entities of luring roughly 2,000 recipients of personal injury settlements into selling their future stream of payments for a heavily discounted lump sum.
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January 30, 2025
Telephone Co. Workers Ask 8th Circ. To Revive 401(k) Fee Suit
Two workers urged the Eighth Circuit to revive their proposed class action claiming a telephone and data company allowed their $1.3 billion 401(k) plan to be overcharged with excessive fees, arguing the lower court held their claims to a high bar unsupported by circuit precedent.
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January 30, 2025
Magistrate Judge Endorses Sanctions In Union Benefits Fight
A New York federal magistrate judge overseeing a union benefits dispute recommended sanctioning an insulation hauling company that hasn't been responding to court paperwork, but stopped short of recommending that the district judge grant requests for default judgment against the company.
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January 30, 2025
Chancery Reverses Magistrate Toss Of Paramount Doc Suit
A Paramount Global pension fund stockholder has won a Delaware Court of Chancery reversal of a magistrate's dismissal of a suit for company books and records on events surrounding a proposed multibillion-dollar merger between Paramount and Skydance Media, in a decision heavily focused on unnamed sources.
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January 29, 2025
Jones Day Told To Provide Ex-Attys Family Leave Memo
Jones Day must hand over a memo from December 1993 to two ex-associates suing the firm over its allegedly discriminatory family leave policy, a D.C. federal judge ruled Wednesday, saying the firm had placed it "at issue" in the case and waiving any privilege that might have shielded the document.
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January 29, 2025
Court Garbled Pharma Owner's Fraud Charges, 6th Circ. Told
An Ohio district court misrepresented healthcare fraud charges against a pharmaceutical salesman to a jury, his attorney argued Wednesday before the Sixth Circuit, calling for the court to overturn his 2023 conviction and subsequent restitution order to pay $7 million to the IRS.
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January 29, 2025
Pension Plans Seek Trader's Testimony In $2B Tax Fraud Suit
Pension plans and individuals who Denmark's government alleges received fraudulent refunds have asked a New York federal court to allow U.K. court testimony into the record from a trader who Danish authorities say masterminded a $2.1 billion tax fraud, saying it shows he deceived other participants.
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January 29, 2025
4 Questions About Trump's Federal Worker Resignation Policy
President Donald Trump’s offer of letting federal workers resign with several months of paid administrative leave raises questions about its legality and whether workers will actually get paid, attorneys said. Here, Law360 explores four questions that stem from the policy.
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January 29, 2025
Southwest's Plan Oversight Cost Workers Millions, Court Told
Southwest Airlines cost workers millions of dollars in retirement savings by failing to ax a costly and underperforming investment fund from its combined $14 billion retirement plans, according to a proposed class action filed in Texas federal court.
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January 29, 2025
Labor Litigator Jumps To Holland & Knight In Calif., Colo.
Holland & Knight LLP has added an experienced labor and employment litigator who joins the firm's Los Angeles and Denver offices as an equity partner after 10 years with management-side employment firm Littler Mendelson PC.
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January 29, 2025
Workers Needed To Initiate Arbitration, Calif. Panel Says
A group of workers needed to initiate arbitration in their proposed class action claiming an insurance company misclassified them as exempt employees after a trial court sent their claims out of court, a California state appellate panel ruled, flipping the lower court's decision reviving the suit.
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January 29, 2025
RFK Jr. Disputes Anti-Vax Label In HHS Confirmation Hearing
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attempted Wednesday morning to convince Republican and Democratic lawmakers that he is not anti-vaccine, despite many of his past comments to the contrary, as he hopes to convince them to confirm his appointment as head of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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January 28, 2025
Trump Targets Gender-Affirming Care For Minors In New Order
President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies late Tuesday to take steps to halt gender-affirming care for minors, including by cutting off Medicaid and military health coverage for what he called a "stain on our nation's history."
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January 28, 2025
Minn. AG Settles Novo Nordisk Insulin Claims With Price Cap
Minnesota's attorney general has reached a settlement resolving a long-running lawsuit accusing Novo Nordisk of inflating insulin prices, with the company agreeing to a $35 per month cap on out-of-pocket costs for state residents.
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January 28, 2025
Cigna Can't Escape Fight Over Prosthetic Coverage In Maine
Cigna must continue facing an Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit by a man who was denied coverage of his prosthetic device, with a Maine federal judge saying she can't rule on the insurer's dismissal motion until she knows what entity funds the man's healthcare plan.
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January 28, 2025
Creditors Seek To End Yellow Corp.'s Exclusive Ch. 11 Control
The official committee of unsecured creditors in Yellow Corp.'s bankruptcy case filed a motion Tuesday to terminate the defunct trucking company's exclusive right to file a Chapter 11 plan, or alternatively, to convert the proceedings to a Chapter 7 liquidation.
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January 28, 2025
Union Worker Entitled To Higher Pension Benefits, Judge Says
A plumbing union pension plan violated federal benefits law when it refused to increase a worker's monthly payments because he opted to retire late, a Minnesota federal judge ruled, finding the plan's terms didn't prevent him from receiving a bump.
Expert Analysis
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Planning Law Firm Content Calendars: What, When, Where
During the slower month of August, law firms should begin working on their 2025 content calendars, planning out a content creation and distribution framework that aligns with the firm’s objectives and maintains audience engagement throughout the year, says Jessica Kaplan at Legally Penned.
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Series
Playing Golf Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Golf can positively affect your personal and professional life well beyond the final putt, and it’s helped enrich my legal practice by improving my ability to build lasting relationships, study and apply the rules, face adversity with grace, and maintain my mental and physical well-being, says Adam Kelly at Venable.
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Law Firms Should Move From Reactive To Proactive Marketing
Most law firm marketing and business development teams operate in silos, leading to an ad hoc, reactive approach, but shifting to a culture of proactive planning — beginning with comprehensive campaigns — can help firms effectively execute their broader business strategy, says Paul Manuele at PR Manuele Consulting.
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Opinion
The Big Issues A BigLaw Associates' Union Could Address
A BigLaw associates’ union could address a number of issues that have the potential to meaningfully improve working conditions, diversity and attorney well-being — from restructured billable hour requirements to origination credit allocation, return-to-office mandates and more, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.
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Opinion
It's Time For A BigLaw Associates' Union
As BigLaw faces a steady stream of criticism about its employment policies and practices, an associates union could effect real change — and it could start with law students organizing around opposition to recent recruiting trends, says Tara Rhoades at The Sanity Plea.
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How Calif. Justices' Prop 22 Ruling Affects The Gig Industry
The California Supreme Court's recent upholding of Proposition 22 clarifies that Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other companies in the gig industry can legally classify their drivers as independent contractors, but it falls short of concluding some important regulatory battles in the state, says Mark Spring at CDF Labor.
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How Justices Upended The Administrative Procedure Act
In its recent Loper Bright, Corner Post and Jarkesy decisions, the U.S. Supreme Court fundamentally changed the Administrative Procedure Act in ways that undermine Congress and the executive branch, shift power to the judiciary, curtail public and business input, and create great uncertainty, say Alene Taber and Beth Hummer at Hanson Bridgett.
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Opinion
DOL's Impending Mental Health Act Regs Should Be Simplified
The U.S. Department of Labor should consider revising these six issues in its forthcoming Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act regulations to ease the significant compliance hurdles for group health plan sponsors, says Alden Bianchi at McDermott.
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Opinion
Texas Judges Ignored ERISA's Core To Stall Fiduciary Rule
Two recent rulings from Texas federal courts, which rely on a plainly wrong reading of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to effectively strike a forthcoming rule that would impose functional fiduciary duties onto sellers of investment services, may expose financially unsophisticated 401(k) participants to peddlers of misleading advice, says Mark DeBofsky at DeBofsky Law.
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Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Is My Counterclaim Bound To Fall?
A Pennsylvania federal court’s recent dismissal of the defendants’ counterclaims in Morgan v. Noss should remind attorneys to avoid the temptation to repackage a claim’s facts and law into a mirror-image counterclaim, as this approach will often result in a waste of time and resources, says Matthew Selmasska at Kaufman Dolowich.
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Series
Playing Dungeons & Dragons Makes Me A Better Lawyer
Playing Dungeons & Dragons – a tabletop role-playing game – helped pave the way for my legal career by providing me with foundational skills such as persuasion and team building, says Derrick Carman at Robins Kaplan.
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Del. Dispatch: Director Caremark Claims Need Extreme Facts
The Delaware Court of Chancery recently dismissed Caremark claims against the directors of Centene in Bricklayers Pension Fund of Western Pennsylvania v. Brinkley, indicating a high bar for a finding of the required element of bad faith for Caremark liability, and stressing the need to resist hindsight bias, say attorneys at Fried Frank.
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Parsing NJ Court's Rationale For Denying Lipitor Class Cert.
A New Jersey federal court's recent Lipitor rulings granting summary judgment and denying motions for class certification for two plaintiff classes offer insight into the level of rigorous analysis required by both parties and their experts to satisfy the requirements of class certification, says Catia Twal at Edgeworth Economics.
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Series
After Chevron: Challenges Loom For PBGC Actions
After Loper Bright, two recent actions taken by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. already under scrutiny seem destined to be challenged and resolved under the new standard of judicial deference, which will greatly affect employers with potential withdrawal liability exposure, say Robert Perry and David Pixley at Jackson Lewis.
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3 Leadership Practices For A More Supportive Firm Culture
Traditional leadership styles frequently amplify the inherent pressures of legal work, but a few simple, time-neutral strategies can strengthen the skills and confidence of employees and foster a more collaborative culture, while supporting individual growth and contribution to organizational goals, says Benjamin Grimes at BKG Leadership.