ERISA

March 11, 2021 A lawsuit claims Nextep “wasted” the assets of its retirement plan by failing to remove imprudent investment options and allowing excessive fees to be charged.

March 3, 2021 A class action alleges IBM has discriminated against health plan enrollees with developmental mental health conditions, including Autism Spectrum Disorder, by routinely excluding or limiting coverage for speech, occupational and physical therapies.

March 1, 2021 A lawsuit alleges Princeton University and Aetna Life Insurance Co. are among a number of parties who have wrongfully sought coverage reimbursements from portions of personal injury settlements.

February 23, 2021 A class action claims Kinder Morgan violated ERISA by decreasing retirement plan participants’ accrued benefits and modifying the factors for early retirement.

January 20, 2021 A class action alleges Mercedes-Benz and the directors of its employee 401(k) retirement savings plan have caused participants to pay “unreasonable and excessive” annual service fees.

January 20, 2021 A class action claims Associated Banc-Corp loaded its employee retirement plan with imprudent investments and allowed the plan to be charged excessive fees.

November 25, 2020 A former Bank of America employee claims he and other workers were not provided with proper notice of their right to continued healthcare coverage under COBRA.

November 24, 2020 A class action looks to halt changes to the Bert Bell/Pete Rozelle NFL Player Retirement plan that participants say would reduce or eliminate certain vested disability benefits.

November 20, 2020 A proposed class action claims Fiat Chrysler failed to provide proper notice of continued healthcare coverage to employees who experienced a qualifying event.

November 5, 2020 A proposed class action claims Allstate has failed to prudently select and monitor the investment options for its employee retirement savings plan.

October 15, 2020 A lawsuit claims PNC allowed its employee incentive savings plan to incur excessive recordkeeping and administrative expenses to the detriment of participants.

September 11, 2020 A class action claims the Goodman Group, LLC sent COBRA notices that unlawfully lacked critical information on continued healthcare coverage.

September 3, 2020 Brooklyn Bedding sent to qualifying employees “deficient” COBRA notices that failed to properly explain their right to continued health insurance coverage, a lawsuit claims.

August 21, 2020 A class action alleges Liberty Mutual has unlawfully backtracked on providing retirement benefits to those who worked for Safeco before the company's 2008 acquisition by Liberty.

July 22, 2020 A class action claims some participants in the Motion Picture Industry Health Plan were granted special relief amid the COVID-19 crisis while others were excluded.

July 9, 2020 Home Depot is alleged in a class action to have sent COBRA notices for continued health insurance coverage that are missing certain legally required information.

July 2, 2020 A former Amazon employee claims she never received proper notice of her right to continued health insurance coverage after her termination.

June 29, 2020 A former California Vegetable Specialties employee says she was not provided with timely notice of her right to continued health insurance coverage following her termination.

June 23, 2020 A former Hershey Company employee claims the snack maker failed to send proper notice of her right to continued health insurance coverage following her termination.

June 18, 2020 A former Southwest Airlines employee claims she was not provided with proper notice of her right to continued health insurance coverage after being terminated.

June 10, 2020 A class action alleges Anthem UM has wrongfully denied insurance coverage for an FDA-approved, clinically proven percutaneous neuromodulation therapy device.

June 10, 2020 A class action claims Starbucks has failed to provide eligible employees with proper notice of their right to continued health insurance coverage.

May 19, 2020 A former ExpressJet flight attendant claims the carrier has unlawfully discouraged employees from taking medical leave and withheld benefits from departing workers.

May 1, 2020 A case claims Nestle Waters North America failed to provide former employees with proper notice of the availability of continued health insurance coverage under COBRA.

April 15, 2020 Cigna and Viant face a health insurance plan participant's claims that the companies have illegally underpaid for out-of-network behavioral health benefits.

April 3, 2020 A proposed class action out of Florida claims WCA Waste Systems, Inc. has failed to send adequate COBRA notice to participants in the company’s health plan.

March 26, 2020 A former employee has filed a class action against Amazon Corporate in which he claims the company sent out non-compliant COBRA health coverage notices.

March 18, 2020 A class action claims the health plan administrator for subscription box service Loot Crate Inc. failed to provide former workers with COBRA notices that complied with federal law.

March 4, 2020 A class action claims John Hancock has loaded its employee retirement plan with its own poor-performing, high-cost investment products.

February 25, 2020 A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of participants in The Vail Corporation’s 401(k) retirement plan who were allegedly injured by the mountain resort company’s poor management of the plan.

January 28, 2020 Two parents claim in a class action that Raytheon Company's benefits plan applies a blanket exclusion to "non-restorative speech therapy" that unlawfully restricts mental health coverage.

January 21, 2020 Best Buy faces a class action alleging the retailer failed to provide health plan beneficiaries with proper continuation of coverage notices.

January 21, 2020 Two cancer patients claim in a class action that BCBS has employed a policy and practice of initially denying claims for proton beam therapy only to reverse course later on after patients have endured a lengthy appeals process.

November 6, 2019 A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Prudential failed to act in the best interests of investors in the company’s defined contribution 401(k) plan by loading the retirement plan with high-cost, underperforming funds.

October 28, 2019 A class action lawsuit claims that Anthem wrongly denied coverage of a widely known and approved medical procedure that it deemed “investigational and not medically necessary.”

October 28, 2019 A class action lawsuit alleges The Goldman Sachs Group and its employee retirement plan committee loaded the plan with underperforming, company-managed mutual funds instead of acting in participants’ best interests.

October 4, 2019 A proposed class action alleges that CareerBuilder allowed its investment advisor and the recordkeepers of the company’s retirement plan to reap “excessive and unreasonable" fees.

August 29, 2019 A Pennsylvania man and his wife have filed a lawsuit in which they claim Aetna Life Insurance Company and Aetna Inc. have wrongfully refused to cover the cost of cancer-treating proton beam therapy for members of the company’s healthcare plans.

August 28, 2019 Coca-Cola Beverages Florida, LLC failed to properly notify employees of their right to continued healthcare under COBRA, according to a class action suit.

August 19, 2019 Former Ford Motor Company employees have filed a proposed class action lawsuit in which they allege the automaker robbed managers of millions of dollars in pension benefits to which they were entitled under federal law.

August 12, 2019 Walgreen Co. and the respective administrators of its retirement plan and trust fund are facing a class action that claims the parties have robbed plan members of over $300 million in retirement savings by investing the money in underperforming funds.

July 16, 2019 UnitedHealth Group, Inc. and several affiliate companies have been named in a class action lawsuit that claims the insurance conglomerate has unlawfully denied coverage for insureds’ substance use disorder and mental health treatment.

July 12, 2019 Adidas faces a class action lawsuit filed by two plaintiffs who claim participants in and beneficiaries of the sports apparel company's 401(k) plan have been charged unlawfully excessive fees.

June 18, 2019 Target Corporation faces a proposed class action in which a former employee and his partner claim the retailer failed to provide legally adequate notice and instructions regarding their right to continued health coverage under COBRA.

May 20, 2019 Huntington Ingalls Industries faces a lawsuit that claims it failed to provide alternative retirement benefits of equal value to single life annuities.

May 7, 2019 An Anheuser-Busch retirement plan participant alleges he's been deprived of rightful benefits due to the companies' use of an outdated mortality table to calculate annuity equivalences.

April 25, 2019 A lawsuit recently transferred to New York federal court claims PepsiCo, Inc. violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) by sending insufficient COBRA notices to former health plan participants.

April 2, 2019 The Boeing Company has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit filed by two investors in its employee retirement plan who claim the aircraft manufacturer failed to disclose known safety issues with its 737 MAX series.

February 21, 2019 A lawsuit alleges that investment manager Fidelity and several of its subsidiaries charge mutual funds secret fees for access to retirement plan customers.

January 25, 2019 A class action filed in New Jersey alleges Johnson & Johnson's failure to disclose that its talc baby powder products contained asbestos cost employee retirement plan participants millions.