Shipbuilder Denied Judgment After Experts Allowed In ERISA Class Action

(October 7, 2020, 12:44 PM EDT) -- NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — An employee class action alleging that an employer violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by miscalculating benefits owed to retirees survived a summary judgment bid by the employer Sept. 29 when a Virginia federal judge adopted a magistrate judge's findings that experts for both sides are reliable and that the issues involved "may be resolved by a reasonable factfinder endorsing either expert's testimony" (Roger A. Herndon v. Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., No. 19-52, E.D. Va.)....