$4.95M Deal Gets Final OK In ERISA Tobacco Surcharge Suit That Preceded Wave

( June 5, 2025, 9:15 AM EDT) -- SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A Missouri federal judge has granted final approval to the $4.95 million class settlement of a suit that was filed months before a recent wave of similar Employee Retirement Income Security Act challenges to health plans’ tobacco surcharges; the named plaintiff said the total represents “approximately 35% of the tobacco surcharges at issue in the full, six-year look-back window.”...