Mealey's (May 23, 2018, 12:11 PM EDT) -- SEATTLE — A Washington federal judge on May 18 partially granted a plaintiff's motion to strike a 403(b) plan administrator’s affirmative defenses in a putative class action lawsuit alleging breach of fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security, but allowed the affirmative defense under ERISA’s safe-harbor provision to stand (Jenny Johnson, et al. v. Providence Health & Services, et al., No. 17-1779, W.D. Wash., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 84108)....