Pensions
Court Rules for Colgate Retirees in Benefit Calculation Lawsuit
Colgate may have to pay a total of $300 million to 1,200 retirement plan participants.
Trustees accused of acting like ‘drunken gamblers’ pay nearly $27 million, deny wrongdoing.
Lawsuit alleges firm used underperforming proprietary mutual funds in plan.
Suit says poorly performing funds were ‘devastating’ to retirement accounts.
Legislation would require church plans to follow ERISA standards.
Workers accused the health system of improperly claiming it was a church plan.