Heinz Cited In Certiorari Bid Over ERISA Pension Plan Reinterpretation Dispute

Mealey's (November 15, 2022, 3:46 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seeking review of a ruling that they argue “renders Central Laborers Pension Fund v. Heinz toothless,” participants in a defined-benefit multiemployer pension plan urge the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a circuit split by ruling “that a reinterpretation that reduces or eliminates an accrued pension benefit is a prohibited amendment within the meaning of” the Employee Retirement Income Security Act; the respondents then were granted an extension to oppose the petition for certiorari....