July 25, 2019
A federal judge ruled Thursday that a Kentucky hospital's pension plan is a "church plan" exempt from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, dismissing a suit from the hospital's former workers accusing it of wrongly claiming the religious exemption while underfunding the plan.
March 05, 2019
A Kentucky hospital and a group of its former employees doubled down on their arguments about whether the hospital's pension plan was a "church plan" exempt from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, each urging a Kentucky federal judge to grant a quick win.
January 10, 2019
A Kentucky hospital and a group of its former employees have filed competing bids for quick wins on the issue of whether the hospital's pension plan warranted a religious exemption from the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
October 05, 2018
A Kentucky federal judge has said he won't revisit an April decision in which he refused to let former members of a Kentucky hospital pension plan's administrative committee off the hook on a claim that the plan had not been properly funded.
August 29, 2018
A Kentucky hospital again asked a federal judge to rule that its pension plan warranted a religious exemption provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, arguing that the plan was both established by a church and maintained by a qualified organization.
August 14, 2018
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that a Kentucky hospital must face claims it underfunded its employee retirement plan by $166 million due to its alleged misuse of an Employee Retirement Income Security Act exemption that is intended for churches.
June 13, 2018
A Kentucky hospital accused of underfunding its pension plan by $166 million said the former employees bringing the suit relied on "half-truths and distortion" in making their allegations and urged a federal judge to toss the claims.
May 09, 2018
Members of a Kentucky hospital pension plan shot back Tuesday at plan administrators' request that a federal judge reconsider his decision to keep alive two claims alleging the benefit was underfunded by $166 million, saying the motion simply recycled old arguments.
April 17, 2018
The former members of a Kentucky hospital's pension plan administrative committee asked a federal judge Tuesday to revisit a decision that kept alive two claims brought by members of the plan allegedly underfunded by $166 million, arguing that the law "accommodates funding deficiencies."
April 05, 2018
Former members of a Kentucky hospital pension plan's administrative committee must face allegations the plan was wrongly characterized as a "church plan" and underfunded by $166 million, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, though he freed the former committee members from other claims.