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The Ninth Circuit affirmed two district court decisions that concluded medical providers were not "beneficiaries" under Section 502(a) of ERISA and therefore lacked standing to bring an ERISA claim.

The case—Rodriguez v. Raymours Furniture Co., Inc.—is sure to receive attention in the coming months.

As such, the Court affirmed the lower court's ruling dismissing the case.

Employers that are required to notify their employees of their eligibility for the federal Earned Income Tax Credit also must notify employees that they may be eligible for the California Earned Income Tax Credit; the bill also updates the content of the notice that must be provided to employees.

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs suspended its operations on October 1, 2013 as part of the Federal government shutdown.

John Urbino alleged in the form of a claim under the Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 that Orkin illegally deprived him and other non-exempt employees of meal periods, overtime and vacation wages and accurate itemized wage statements.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology persuaded a federal district court to toss a jury demand in a case alleging that the MIT 401(k)

The Seventh Circuit rejected a disability plan participant's argument that an untimely decision denying his claim for long-term disability benefits warranted changing the standard of review...

Morgan Stanley and others were not de facto ERISA fiduciaries by virtue of having authority and means to fund company contributions with stock rather than cash.

As described in our previous blog post last week, on June 30, 2015 the U.S. Department of Labor finally released its highly anticipated proposed regulations to amend 29 CFR Part 541, the Fair Labor Standards Act's "white collar" exemptions.

On October 18, 2017, a federal district judge in Alaska ordered a former employee to pay nearly $170,000 of his ex-employer's legal fees as sanction for removing nine attorney-client privileged documents...

In Vangas v. Montefiore Medical Center, 2016 WL 2909354 (2d Cir. May 19, 2016), the Second Circuit affirmed the district court's holding that an employer is not liable for failing to provide a COBRA notice to a terminated employee under ERISA § 502(c) where the employer followed reasonable procedures to ensure that notices were properly mailed.

Following in the footsteps of scores of other employers that have relocated to more business-friendly states, Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday that it's moving its global headquarters from San Jose

Cynthia Lawler alleged disability discrimination, harassment, retaliation and intentional infliction of emotional distress associated with the termination of her employment.

Ray Batarse sued the SEIU for race discrimination, among other things, associated with the termination of his employment.

Plaintiff Kristopher Towles, challenged the plan’s decision to pay the life insurance proceeds to the deceased’s husband, contending that the beneficiary form replacing him with the deceased husband had been forged.

The Tenth Circuit upheld a claims administrator's decision denying a claim for residential mental health treatment as not medically necessary.

The PBGC finalized a proposed rule that changes the flat-rate premium due date for large plans to the same as their variable-rate due date, which is 9.5 calendar months after the beginning of the premium payment year (October 15th for calendar-year plans), effective as of the 2014 plan year.