Puerto Rico Federal Judge: Parties Haven’t Proven If Plan Is Exempt Church Plan

(July 26, 2017, 2:58 PM EDT) -- SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Puerto Rico federal judge on July 19 denied a motion to dismiss a putative Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action alleging that the defendants have mismanaged an employee pension plan, saying that the parties at this point have failed to prove whether the plan is a church plan exempt from ERISA’s requirements (Norma I. Cardoza-Estremera, et al. v. Colegio Padre Berrios, et al., No. 16-2318, D. Puerto Rico, 2017 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 114435)....