Pension Plan, Committee Seek Rehearing Of Domestic Partner Spousal Benefit Suit

Mealey's (June 3, 2019, 12:03 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A pension plan, the pension committee and a broadcasting company on May 29 asked a panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to reconsider its holding that a trial court erred in denying the surviving domestic partner of a benefit plan participant spousal benefits after the plan participant died (David R. Reed v. KRON/IBEW Local 45 Pension Plan, et al., No. 17-17176, 9th Cir.)....