Mealey's (June 9, 2020, 10:16 AM EDT) -- FORT WORTH, Texas — A federal judge in Texas on May 22 denied class certification of a group of participants in American Airlines Inc. defined benefit retirement plans seeking to reform the mortality table American uses to calculate retirement benefits, finding that the representative plaintiffs failed to show that they are adequate class representatives and that the reformation being sought would harm some members of the proposed class (Olga Martinez Torres, et al. v. American Airlines, Inc., et al., No. 18-983, N.D. Texas). ...