Law360, New York (November 19, 2009) -- A federal appeals court has rejected a plaintiff's bid to overturn a district court’s decision that AT&T Inc. did not illegally reduce workers' pension benefits by applying a preretirement mortality discount to her lump sum retirement benefits payout.
A little more than a month after named plaintiff Kathleen A. Stewart filed the appeal, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled Tuesday that AT&T’s plan administrator...


