The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has announced that the Georgia Institute of Technology will settle a whistleblower qui tam suit for $875,000. The case is U.S. ex rel. Craig and Koza v. Georgia Tech Research Corp., Case Number 1:22-cv-02698,
C.P. et al. v. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Case Number 23-4331, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
In C.P., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned a grant of summary judgment in
Adidas investors appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to renew their putative securities class action that an Oregon federal district court judge dismissed in August 2024. According to investors, Adidas failed to disclose the risks
Washington State’s federal courts are seeing a rash of employment litigation. Much of the litigation involves laws barring restrictive covenants and encouraging wage transparency, which have spurned suits claiming that employers failed to disclose wages or salary ranges in job
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit seemed to express doubt over the propriety of class status during arguments in an Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) lawsuit by Genworth Financial employee retirement plan
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has announced that it will not seek penalties against employers for failure to meet reporting requirements concerning overtime compensation and cash tips for the 2025 tax year. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that
A bipartisan coalition of legislators, led by the leaders of the Senate Finance Committee, has reintroduced a major pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) regulation bill in Congress. Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, Senate Finance Committee chairman, and Sen. Ron Wyden, the highest-ranking
A New Jersey federal district court judge has preliminarily approved a $5.75 million settlement between National Freight, Inc. (NFI) and a class of truck drivers working for the company. However, the settlement goes well beyond a mere business dispute. This
Humana Inc. and Mark Cuban recently announced at the Forbes healthcare conference that they are working on a potential pharmacy partnership, which could increase pressure on pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Cuban owns Cost Plus Drugs, a company that sells medications
A judge for the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas has approved a $13.5 million settlement in a wage claim suit against Bayada Home Health Care. The class, which includes about 11,000 nurses who worked for the company between August 2013
