State legislators across party lines have increasingly sought to promote paid family and medical leave bills, even as differences of opinion remain substantial about whether to pursue mandatory, voluntary, or state-employee-focused policies.
The US Labor Department’s ability to regulate retirement plan asset rollovers now hinges on a single Texas federal district court judge who can decide whether to preserve status-quo limits or strip the department of even more regulatory authority.
President Joe Biden will announce steps his administration is taking to help lower health care costs, including the targeting of so-called junk insurance plans and surprise medical bills. The administration will propose rules that would close loopholes on insurance plans that often provide reduced coverage, including undoing Trump administration rules on short-term policies.
A mix of medical provider groups, insurers, and patient advocacy organizations voiced strong support for the Biden administration’s move Friday to curb the sale of “junk” health insurance plans, and to shore up other protections for patients.
The federal government’s private-sector pension insurer is clarifying the rare conditions for when it will distribute single-employer plan benefits as a lump sum, finalizing a regulation the agency first proposed in 2019.
Greenberg Traurig and other major law firms faced with a dwindling M&A market are turning their attention to a new competitive growth area: private credit.
Bills that didn’t make it over the finish line in state houses across the US could preview workplace laws legislators prioritize next year. Meanwhile, a recent Supreme Court decision could inform a lower court’s ruling on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
State legislators across party lines have increasingly sought to promote paid family and medical leave bills, even as differences of opinion remain substantial about whether to pursue mandatory, voluntary, or state-employee-focused policies.
A retired Hughes Hubbard & Reed partner accusing the law firm of age bias in a dispute over pension payments has lost a preliminary injunction request to access to his work phone and email.
President Joe Biden will announce steps his administration is taking to help lower health care costs, including the targeting of so-called junk insurance plans and surprise medical bills. The administration will propose rules that would close loopholes on insurance plans that often provide reduced coverage, including undoing Trump administration rules on short-term policies.
A mix of medical provider groups, insurers, and patient advocacy organizations voiced strong support for the Biden administration’s move Friday to curb the sale of “junk” health insurance plans, and to shore up other protections for patients.
Steve Baumer will take over as Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner’s new chief executive officer next year as the firm moves to a single-leader structure.
A spending bill that increases tax benefits for seniors, creates a paid family leave program, and makes Maine’s dependent exemption tax credit refundable is heading to Gov. Janet Mills (D), who has said she will sign it.
The court reversed the decision of the Court of Appeals that a state employee’s ex-wife’s interest in his retirement account had gone dormant because she didn’t send the retirement system a copy of the qualified domestic relations order. In re Marriage of Holliday, 2023 BL 223679, Kan., 124,116, 6/30/23
The court granted the Procter & Gamble U.S. Business Services Company’s motion for judgment as a matter of law on the administrative record in an employee’s action challenging the denial of long-term disability benefits for wrist and knee injuries. Ryan v. Procter & Gamble U.S. Bus. Servs. Co., 2023 BL 218689, S.D. Ohio, 1:20-cv-556, 6/26/23
The court granted in part a Caliber Home Loans Inc. employee’s motion for summary judgment in this ERISA and Parity Act action against United HealthCare Insurance Co. challenging the denial of benefits for the employee’s son’s residential treatment center. C.P. v. United Healthcare Ins. Co., 2023 BL 212489, D. Utah, 2:21-cv-378-BSJ, 6/21/23
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