Alaska Airlines Inc. reached a class-wide settlement with pilots who said they were wrongly denied the chance to accrue vacation time while they were absent from work to serve in the military.

Court battles by workers with long Covid are a new test of the nation’s private insurance system, which lawyers and academics say is stacked against them. The complex, yearslong process passes judgment on enrollees from afar and is filled with conflicts of interest that benefit the insurer, according to court opinions, plaintiffs’ complaints and interviews with lawyers and academics.

The current effects of AI on retirement plans are operational, fiduciary, and uneven across plan types, says Hall Benefits’ Samuel W. Krause in the first of a two-part article.

New York City will have to pay sanctions for failing to respond to discovery requests in a lawsuit alleging the city’s health plan discriminates against gay male couples by denying them in vitro fertilization benefits.

John Quinn has been celebrating the 40th anniversary of the law firm he founded by expounding on what he has learned running it all these years. Sunday, he seemed to give one more lesson: Don’t be sentimental about your exit.

Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. properly denied accidental death benefits to the widow of a pancreatic cancer patient who died after hitting his head during a fall, the Eighth Circuit ruled Monday.