April 4, 2023
Insurer Chubb has been accused of “lowballing” offers in the settlement of an employee class action that the owner of a popular New England grocery chain was motivated to close out due to fears that further discovery might reveal damaging …
November 10, 2015
Which do the conservative justices hate more: personal-injury lawyers or interpreting a law loosely to expand the power of lower courts? That question was to be on the table Monday at the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices are hearing oral …
July 13, 2015
A U.S. federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by former Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc employees seeking to hold onetime Chief Executive Richard Fuld liable for their retirement plan losses as the Wall Street bank plunged into its 2008 bankruptcy. …
May 19, 2015
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday revived claims made by Edison International employees who accused the utility of favoring higher-cost mutual funds over lower-cost ones in its retirement plan. On a 9-0 vote, the court threw out an appeals court …
May 1, 2013
As mineworkers and retirees battle to salvage their pensions and benefits from the bankruptcy of Patriot Coal Corp., lawyers for their union are trying an unusual gambit – and one that may be a test case for workers’ rights when …
December 4, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing General Motors Co. employees whose pension plans lost money to pursue their case against a State Street Corp. unit over its management of their retirement savings plans before the automaker went bankrupt. Without comment, …
October 30, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider two appeals in a case weighing the ability of tens of millions of Americans to bring lawsuits over their retirement plans. Without comment, the court let stand an April ruling by …