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Supreme Court to Rule On Retirees' Lifetime Health Care Benefits

Posted On: Nov 17, 2014

Nov. 17, 2014 | HEALTHCARE BENEFITS | Can retirees get lifetime health care benefits under a union contract? That question, which now affects retirees at a West Virginia firm whose employees are Steelworkers, but which could affect millions of workers in the future, hit the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 10. At issue in M&G Polymers USA vs Robert Tackett et al is how to interpret contract provisions that apparently have the retirees those benefits, which the company now wants to stop. Source story here.