3rd Circuit OKs Dismissal Of Union Retirees’ Claims Over ERISA Medical Benefits

Mealey's (June 29, 2020, 8:26 AM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A group of retired union workers cannot go forward with claims that their former employer violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by changing their medical plan, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in a June 19 nonprecedential opinion determining that the workers’ collective bargaining agreement did not give them a right to unalterable lifetime medical benefits (Neil Blankenship, et al. v. Dominion Energy Transmission, Inc., et al., No. 19-3374, 3rd Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 19186)....