John Muir Health Sued Over Retirement Plan Fees, Forfeiture Use
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A former pizza cook at Arkansas’ Hendrix College lost his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from United of Omaha Life Insurance Co. on account of ailments he says stem from his 2020 infection with Covid-19.
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The Central States Pension Plan needs to return $127 million in extra bailout cash it received due to improper counting of dead participants and will not face negative legal outcomes for doing so, the US Department of Labor said Thursday.
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The Biden administration is rolling out an executive order to strengthen women’s health research standards across federal agencies and prioritize its funding in an effort to close the gap on long-standing disparities. Part of the order instructs certain agencies to research ways to use artificial intelligence toward advancing women’s health research.
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A former pizza cook at Arkansas’ Hendrix College lost his lawsuit seeking long-term disability benefits from United of Omaha Life Insurance Co. on account of ailments he says stem from his 2020 infection with Covid-19.
HELP Committee Chair Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) held a hearing last week on whether technology can finally help the workforce realize a 32-hour workweek. Meanwhile, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division continues to lose investigators, potentially undercutting its enforcement efforts.
KPMG sees an opportunity to grow its legal business by outspending major law firms on artificial intelligence tools.
Columnist Rob Chesnut writes that with an FTC rule looming, companies should aim to delight customers, not cling to them with hard-to-cancel auto-renewals.
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The US judiciary’s policy arm issued guidance to courts encouraging federal judges to assign all civil cases in a way that limits judge-shopping.
The court granted The Hartford Life Insurance Co.'s motion for summary judgment on a Center for Discovery employee’s ERISA action challenging The Hartford’s refusal to pay her long-term disability benefits related to side effects of medication prescribed following smoke inhalation.
Johnson v. The Hartford, 2024 BL 81714, S.D.N.Y., 22-CV-06394 (PMH), 3/12/24
The court granted Yale University and Yale Health Plan’s motion to dismiss Murphy Medical Associates LLC and Diagnostic and Medical Specialists of Greenwich LLC’s ERISA action seeking reimbursement for COVID-19 testing, due to lack of standing. Murphy Med. Assocs. LLC v. Yale Univ., 2024 BL 76311, D. Conn., 3:22-cv-33 (KAD), 3/7/24
The court denied AmWINS LLC and others’ motion to dismiss First Reliance Bank’s ERISA action for breach of contract, bad faith denial of insurance claims, tortious interference, civil conspiracy, benefits and attorneys’ fees, and breach of fiduciary duty. First Reliance Bank v. AmWINS LLC, 2024 BL 72978, D.S.C., 3:22-2674-MGL, 3/5/24
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