January 05, 2023
A Michigan federal judge rejected Honeywell International's bid to force the United Auto Workers and a group of retirees to cover $263,000 the company spent defending against a long-running suit over health benefits, saying doing so could discourage future suits from retirees.
November 29, 2022
A group of retirees who brought, but failed to win, a suit claiming Honeywell reneged on promises for lifetime health care benefits should not be saddled with $263,000 in attorney fees accrued by the company in the decadelong suit, a Michigan judge said.
June 23, 2022
The United Auto Workers urged a Michigan federal court to reject Honeywell's attempt to force the union to cover over $263,000 of the company's legal fees and costs following Honeywell's win in a decadelong dispute over retirees' entitlement to health care benefits, calling the bid untimely and inappropriate.
May 04, 2022
Honeywell International Inc. told a Michigan federal judge to grant it attorney fees after it won a retirement benefits suit against its former workers, saying the workers' unnecessary prolonging of the suit caused the company to expend additional resources that should be reimbursed.
August 22, 2018
Honeywell International Inc. retirees seeking health care benefits and workers at a Missouri hospital looking to stop SSM Health Care Corp. from allegedly misusing the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's church exemption are challenging July losses in proposed ERISA class actions.
July 26, 2018
A Michigan federal judge sided with Honeywell International Inc. on Wednesday in a class action over the health care benefits of retirees, finding that previous insurance agreements between workers and the company do not require the industrial conglomerate to guarantee the benefits for life.
May 21, 2018
Honeywell International Inc. told a Michigan federal judge Friday that a class of 4,700 retirees wrongly argued that collective bargaining agreements required the company to make a minimum level of contributions to health care benefits for life, saying that the court already found that the contracts didn't vest health care benefits.
March 30, 2018
Honeywell International Inc. must reimburse a class of 4,700 retirees their insurance costs under three contracts it wrongly claimed capped the percentage of their premiums it had to cover, but doesn't have to pay their health care benefits going forward, a Michigan federal judge ruled Thursday.
May 11, 2017
Retirees who worked as unionized employees for Honeywell International Inc. asked a Michigan federal court Wednesday to stop the company from ending health care benefits they say it promised to provide to 4,700 proposed class members, arguing three collective bargaining agreements explicitly guarantee the benefits.