As the Supreme Court’s 2024 term comes to a close, we want to highlight several decisions that impact employer-sponsored group health plans. Health plan sponsors will want to monitor the impact of these decisions.

Following a jury trial in federal court in the Central District of Illinois, a Winston team secured a verdict and compensatory damages for our client, an inmate at the Pontiac Correctional Center.

Class certification is the most important moment of any putative class action. Before class certification, the defendant’s exposure beyond the individual claim is still theoretical rather than concrete. But certification of a class allows a single plaintiff (or a small group of plaintiffs) to formally pursue the claims of numerous absent individuals, which raises the stakes for defendants. This article will explain basic strategies defendants should consider in class certification briefing.