March 12, 2025
An Ohio federal judge affirmed Tuesday a bankruptcy court's decision tossing legal malpractice claims filed by a coal company executive's estate against Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, rejecting the estate's arguments it sufficiently alleged Willkie was grossly negligent in failing to warn the estate about a potential $6.5 billion ERISA liability.
June 04, 2024
A coal company executive's widow can't demand hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorney fees over a dismissed suit seeking $6.5 billion, United Mine Workers of America pension plan trustees argued, knocking her claim that the trustees are seeking funds from an "elderly woman."
April 15, 2024
The widow of a bankrupt coal company's former president requested $525,000 in attorney fees and costs Monday after a D.C. federal judge tossed a suit alleging her husband's estate and another business owed a union pension plan $6.5 billion, saying the plan's trustees can afford to pay.
April 01, 2024
A bankrupt coal company's affiliates have dodged claims that they owe $6.5 billion to a union pension plan, with a Washington, D.C., federal judge holding that the plan's trustees lacked standing to sue under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because one trustee wasn't properly appointed.
July 24, 2023
The representatives of a defunct coal company asked a D.C. federal judge to toss a $6.5 billion lawsuit over the company's debt to a union pension plan, saying the judge was wrong to rule earlier this year that the plan trustees have standing to sue.
March 28, 2023
Three trustees of a pension trust for retired coal miners can keep pursuing their claims that a now-bankrupt company owes about $6.5 billion, a District of Columbia federal judge ruled, saying that a bankruptcy proceeding didn't strip them of standing.