183 ABA Journal Employee Benefits articles.
A federal judge in San Francisco gave preliminary approval today to a plan by the Social Security Administration to pay $500 million to settle a class action brought on behalf…
Aug 11, 2009 11:10 PM CDT
A Savannah, Ga., personal injury lawyer known for his television ads has been accused of raiding $950,000 from his law firm’s pension plans.
Benjamin Sheftall Eichholz was accused in a…
Aug 7, 2009 2:30 PM CDT
An attorney working as a legal secretary at McGuireWoods lost at trial and has now lost again on appeal in a case alleging that the law firm retaliated against her…
Aug 6, 2009 11:31 PM CDT
Federal jurors in New York sided with litigator David Boies yesterday and rejected a claim that his client, the former chief executive of American International Group, had improperly transferred $4.3…
Jul 8, 2009 12:40 PM CDT
President Barack Obama signed a memorandum today that provides partial benefits to same-sex partners of federal civil service workers.
Although the measure doesn’t provide medical coverage and retirement benefits, it…
Jun 17, 2009 11:19 PM CDT
When she developed aggressive breast cancer, a Texas nurse says, her insurer canceled her individual medical insurance policy. The purported reason was that she had failed to disclose information when…
Jun 17, 2009 5:14 PM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled against female workers claiming bias in maternity leave calculations in an AT&T pension plan.
The court ruled that women who took maternity leave before…
May 18, 2009 3:29 PM CDT
After nearly 50 years at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, many of them in leadership positions, attorney Paul McCann has a pension of nearly $100,000 a year.
But the longtime city…
Apr 27, 2009 11:12 PM CDT
In the convoluted world of high-tech human fertility technology and changing marriage standards, it had to happen sooner or later.
In what may be an unprecedented case anywhere, the married…
Apr 13, 2009 11:59 PM CDT
After a hostile takeover of a direct marketing firm in 2003, corporate counsel William Wachtel reportedly said in a management meeting that the best way to avoid paying severance to…
Apr 1, 2009 11:10 AM CDT
In a throwaway line buried deep in a Philadelphia Inquirer article about the winding down of the 106-year-old WolfBlock is some troubling news.
Retired lawyers may lose…
Mar 25, 2009 3:32 PM CDT
Forced to resign in 2005 as chairman and chief executive of insurance giant American International Group Inc. after almost 40 years at the helm, Maurice “Hank” Greenberg is now suing…
Mar 3, 2009 8:50 PM CST
For years, because of a stronger economy and a lack of enforcement, the Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification Act wasn’t on some employers’ radar screens.
But now laid-off workers are…
Feb 24, 2009 12:20 AM CST
A West Virginia man has taken his fight over a $40 medical bill to the Richmond, Va.-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and won.
Sam Juniper said the case…
Nov 13, 2008 7:36 PM CST
Updated: A group of current and former journalists at the Los Angeles Times, including former legal writer Henry Weinstein, have filed suit against billionaire Sam Zell challenging…
Sep 17, 2008 1:03 PM CDT
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