Plan Trustees:  Jurisdictional Discovery Should Be Allowed On Insurer In ERISA Case

Mealey's (July 22, 2020, 2:04 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Trustees of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) pension plan ask a District of Columbia federal court on July 17 to accept a report recommending that they be allowed to conduct jurisdictional discovery as to a Bermuda reinsurance and insurance company's contacts within the United States for purposes in their Employee Retirement Income Security Act lawsuit over the failure to make $934 million in withdrawal liability payments (Michael H. Holland, et al. v. Cardem Insurance Company Ltd., No. 19-02362, D. D.C.)....