Lawmakers Probe DOL Data Sharing Pact With Plaintiffs’ Firm (1)

A newly unearthed information sharing agreement the US Labor Department maintained with a plaintiffs’ law firm is under fire by GOP lawmakers, after a federal magistrate judge undercut the pact she said would allow regulators to “litigate in the shadows.”

Republicans on the House Committee on Education & the Workforce called on the DOL’s inspector general Thursday to investigate the department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration after it shared confidential investigative material with a firm suing one of the companies that had been the target of an agency audit.

The DOL’s “common interest agreement” with Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC ...