November 26, 2019
A $100 million Employee Retirement Income Security Act settlement rejected as "deficient" in October is actually worth more than $700 million because of future payments it promises to a retirement plan, a putative class of current and retired Dignity Health workers have told a California federal judge.
June 28, 2019
Dignity Health has agreed to pay at least $100 million to settle a proposed class action accusing it of using a religious Employee Retirement Income Security Act exemption to which it wasn't entitled to justify underfunding its pension plan by $1.8 billion.
September 06, 2018
Dignity Health must face the bulk of a proposed class action accusing it of underfunding its pension plan by $1.8 billion after a California federal judge ruled Thursday that the plan participants adequately alleged that it didn't qualify for a religious exemption in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
February 26, 2018
Dignity Health continued to urge a California federal court on Friday to throw out updated class action claims that it underfunded its pension plan by $1.8 billion in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, which were tweaked after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling concerning the dispute expanded the statute's religious exemption.
December 13, 2013
A California federal judge declined Thursday to dismiss a putative class action accusing Dignity Health of underfunding its pension plans by $1.2 billion, saying it wasn't exempt under a "church-state" provision in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act.
June 18, 2013
Dignity Health on Monday asked a California judge to dismiss a putative class action alleging that the health care conglomerate underfunded its pension plans by $1.2 billion, arguing its status as a religious institution exempts it from the law.