2nd Circuit Asked To Rehear Row Over Pension Plan Reinterpretation Of ‘Retires’

Mealey's (April 19, 2022, 10:57 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — Arguing that a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel’s ruling creates a circuit split and is in “direct conflict” with several decisions and violates Employee Retirement Income Security Act regulations, participants in a defined-benefit multiemployer pension plan on April 15 sought rehearing and rehearing en banc of a dispute over reinterpretation of “retires” that resulted in stoppage of their early retirement benefits....