March 29, 2024
A Texas federal judge sided with a class of over 7,000 BP retirees who alleged that the oil giant meddled with their pension plans and underpaid their retirement benefits, finding that BP touted the changes to the plan as positive while unlawfully hiding more detrimental information.
January 20, 2023
A Texas federal judge on Friday denied BP's bid to box out nearly 4,700 retirees from a class action claiming the oil giant unlawfully tinkered with their pension plans and underpaid their retirement benefits, finding the company couldn't assert that the group's claims had been adjudicated in a previous pension-related lawsuit.
February 08, 2022
BP wants to box out nearly 5,000 retirees from a class action claiming the oil giant unlawfully tinkered with their pension plans, arguing it already paid those workers more than $71 million to settle a parallel lawsuit.
July 08, 2021
BP must face a class action claiming it toyed with Standard Oil of Ohio retirees' benefits after acquiring the company in the 1980s, with a Texas federal judge clearing the case for trial by denying the oil giant's bid for an early win.
May 10, 2021
Hundreds of BP retirees urged a Houston federal judge to deny the oil giant's bid to freeze their class action claiming misleading changes to their pension plan, saying the company didn't show it's likely to succeed if allowed to appeal class certification.
April 19, 2021
BP asked a federal court to freeze a suit accusing the company of deceiving employees about their retirement benefits after acquiring their employer, saying allowing the case to proceed before the Fifth Circuit decides whether to review a recent class certification decision would be a waste.
March 15, 2021
A proposed class of over 680 BP retirees should get class certification in a suit alleging the oil giant violated federal law when it denied promised pension benefits after buying their previous employer, a federal judge said Friday.
February 01, 2021
Retirees suing BP over allegations the company misled them about the risk of lower benefits due to a 1989 change to their pension plan have told a Texas federal court that their proposed class action isn't time-barred because BP swept crucial information under the rug.
January 11, 2021
BP urged a Texas federal court to toss the remainder of a proposed class action brought by retirees challenging changes to a pension plan BP made more than 30 years ago, arguing that the company was honest about the changes.
March 14, 2019
A Texas federal judge has thrown out the majority of a proposed Employee Retirement Income Security Act class action accusing BP of denying promised retirement benefits, with the judge chiding the retired employees for not directly saying what laws they think were broken and suing decades too late.