One of the nation’s biggest and best-known multiemployer pension plans says it is considering cutting promised benefits in order to survive.

(Reuters) — A former trader at the broker-dealer unit of MF Global Holdings Ltd. will pay $500,000 to resolve claims that he tried to manipulate palladium and platinum futures prices, a U.S. regulator said on Friday.

A federal appeals court has reinstated a copyright infringement case against singers Justin Bieber and Usher filed by a composer over Mr. Bieber’s hit song, “Somebody to Love.”

Aided by a better-than-expected claims experience, federal regulators are boosting reimbursements provided to insurers under a program created by the health care reform law.

South Dakota employers will see an 8.9% decrease in its voluntary market loss cost workers compensation rate as of July 1, according to the National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc.

Distracted walking injuries are on the rise and pose a threat to workplaces, National Safety Council President and CEO Deborah A.P. Hersman said.

The ERISA Industry Committee is asking regulators to withdraw a recent “clarification” of health reform law rules that place new limits on how much in out-of-pocket expenses employers with high-deductible plans can require employees to pick…

(Reuters) — News Corp. has been ordered by a Manhattan federal judge to face a class action lawsuit accusing it of monopolizing the market for in-store promotions at some 52,500 retail stores across the United States.

A New York appellate court has found an insurance agency liable for $220,000 in fraudulent workers compensation premium payments a company paid at the instruction of one of its former agents.