September 23, 2020
OSF HealthCare System has agreed to pay $25 million toward funding its retirement plans and guarantee benefits under the plans through 2025 to resolve a suit alleging it wrongly claimed an exemption for "church plans" to skirt ERISA requirements.
July 31, 2020
OSF HealthCare System and a proposed class of workers have reached a settlement in a suit accusing OSF of wrongly using ERISA's church exemption to underfund its pension plans, about a year after the Seventh Circuit gave the case new life.
September 28, 2018
OSF HealthCare System defeated a proposed class action accusing it of misusing the Employee Retirement Income Security Act's church exemption on Friday, with an Illinois federal judge ruling that the health care network's ties to the Catholic church put it beyond ERISA's reach.
September 21, 2018
OSF HealthCare System urged an Illinois federal judge to toss a proposed class action accusing it of failing to properly fund its retirement plans while wrongly claiming a religious exemption in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, arguing that the participants bringing the suit didn't "meaningfully address" a relevant Tenth Circuit ruling.
September 12, 2018
A proposed class of participants in defined benefit pension plans sponsored by OSF HealthCare System is fighting the corporation's contention that its quick win bid in an Illinois federal court suit is bolstered by a Missouri federal court decision that tossed a related case regarding so-called church plans.
September 10, 2018
A proposed class of participants in defined benefit pension plans sponsored by OSF HealthCare System has shot back at the Catholic Church-affiliated health care corporation's bid for a quick win on claims in the suit accusing it of dodging pension obligations under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
March 01, 2018
A group of participants in defined benefit pension plans sponsored by OSF HealthCare System on Wednesday urged an Illinois federal court to certify its class action accusing the Catholic Church-affiliated health care corporation of dodging pension obligations under ERISA.
December 09, 2016
The U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation has declined to consolidate two putative class actions filed in separate Illinois federal courts accusing a Catholic Church-affiliated health care corporation of dodging its pension obligations.
October 26, 2016
An Illinois federal judge said Tuesday she won't pause a putative class action accusing a Catholic Church-affiliated health care corporation of dodging its pension obligations, rejecting the corporation's request for a stay ahead of decisions in similar cases before the U.S. Supreme Court.