Jacklyn Wille

A Bank of New York Mellon Corp. business analyst sued a Prudential Financial Inc. unit, saying the insurer wrongly refused to pay him disability benefits after his bout with Covid-19 left him unable to work.

A former Clorox Co. employee filed a proposed class action challenging how the cleaning product company handles the 401(k) plan money forfeited by workers who leave their jobs after short periods.

General Electric Co.'s $61 million class settlement with employees challenging the affiliated funds in their 401(k) plan received initial approval from a Boston federal judge.

The lawyers who negotiated a $30 million class settlement with Verizon Communications Inc. over a hedge fund investment in the company’s 401(k) plan asked a federal judge to award them $10 million in attorneys’ fees.

Xerox Corp. received final approval for a class settlement requiring it to pay more than $7.2 million and provide premium-free health coverage and subsidized dental coverage for certain retirees.

A former NFL running back seeking increased disability benefits asked the Fifth Circuit to reconsider its decision favoring the league plan, calling the opinion “no less detrimental” than the “helmet-to-helmet collision” that caused his disability.

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists’ health plan received final approval for a class settlement valued at up to $20.6 million in a lawsuit claiming it impermissibly targeted senior performers for benefit cuts.

A class settlement requiring Wells Fargo & Co. to pay up to $1 million over its employee health plan notices inched toward court approval, but a federal magistrate judge balked at a set of payments slated for the case’s class representatives.

Rockwell Automation Inc. received preliminary approval for a $900,000 class settlement that’s expected to boost the monthly pension payments of about 200 married retirees.

Intuit Inc. called a lawsuit over how it uses forfeited money in its employee 401(k) plan an attempt to “manufacture a new type of ERISA claim” by upending longstanding statutory law and regulatory guidance.