May 22, 2023
The D.C. Circuit has denied Hilton Worldwide Inc.'s petition for a rehearing of an appellate panel decision reviving a bid to certify a proposed class of employees who say the hotel giant's retirement plan refused benefits to more than 200 workers.
April 04, 2023
The D.C. Circuit has revived a bid to certify a proposed class of Hilton employees who say the hotel giant's retirement plan refused benefits to more than 200 workers, ruling that a lower court wrongly based its certification denial on a "fail-safe" class definition.
March 23, 2022
A D.C. federal judge denied a renewed bid by a proposed class of current and former Hilton employees to certify their lawsuit accusing Hilton Hotels Retirement Plan of denying over 200 workers retirement benefits, ruling that their third attempt to craft an appropriate class definition "remains impermissibly 'fail-safe.'"
October 08, 2020
A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday declined to certify a proposed class of current and former Hilton workers who alleged the Hilton Hotels Retirement Plan violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying them vested benefits but allowed them one more attempt at certification.
February 21, 2020
A group of Hilton retirees on Friday asked a D.C. federal judge to certify a class in their suit claiming they were cheated out of pension benefits through improper vesting rules, saying the hotel chain resorted to "the Rule 23 equivalent of schoolyard name-calling" in its opposition.
February 18, 2020
Hilton Worldwide Inc. has urged a Washington, D.C., federal judge not to certify a proposed ERISA class action claiming the company's pension plan shortchanged retirees by following improper vesting rules, labeling the workers' three proposed subclasses "unwieldy," "ill-defined" and "unworkable."
May 14, 2019
The Hilton Hotels Retirement Plan on Monday told a D.C. federal judge she got it right the first time when she denied Hilton employees' request to add a plaintiff to their proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class suit alleging the company improperly denied vested benefits to certain workers.
April 19, 2018
A D.C. federal judge will not change her order that certain documents with confidential information must be destroyed or returned at the end of a lawsuit over Hilton Worldwide Inc.'s retirement plan, knocking the phrasing of a proposed class of beneficiaries that asked her to rethink the order.
May 06, 2016
A proposed class of current and former employees filed suit against Hilton's retirement plan in D.C. federal court Friday, alleging it violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act by denying vested benefits on grounds that were disallowed by a prior lawsuit.