The lawsuit names both Walgreens Boots Alliance and Optum, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group, as defendants. Twenty-two-year-old Cole Schmidtknecht died from asthma after his insurance plan began ...

The defendants claim the company breached its ERISA fiduciary duty by putting ... filed an administrative lawsuit against the “big three” PBMs—Caremark Rx, Express Scripts and Optum Rx—and their ...

Pharmacy benefit managers OptumRx and Express Scripts have asked the federal judge overseeing nationwide litigation over the ...

The class action lawsuit filed by employees who alleged they were shorted on pension payments, was originally dismissed after ...

Plaintiff’s alternative reading of ERISA, which posits that it is illegal to use forfeitures to cover the cost of employer contributions, flies in the face of this well-established practice, as well ...

The three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an April 2024 ruling by a U.S. District Court judge ...

The lawsuit argues that Wells Fargo’s actions violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, the federal law setting standards for employer-sponsored health coverage.

This litigation surge surfaced on Law.com Radar, which detected a 297% spike in claims for disability benefits under the ...

The lawsuit alleges UnitedHealth Group bypassed MLR restrictions by having its health insurance division pay for services provided at Optum clinics and cites a STAT report that said rates were ...