Tag: Supreme Court

Rhode Island city had been sued for suspending police, firefighter COLAs.

Question is: Can plan beneficiaries sue over risky asset allocations, despite the plan’s return to full funding? 

Despite the ruling, the court sidestepped a much larger issue, whether core pension benefits promised at the time of hire for public workers can be changed. 

But the court might rule on a narrower issue, continuing the controversy over whether the benefits promised employees are fixed for life.

As the state Supreme Court mulls whether to reinstate the new Republican pension law, the party’s lawmakers look for a Plan B if they lose.

Justices grill governor’s top attorney over the legality of complex bill’s passing.

Decision could cost the city millions in creating retroactive pensions.

Court rules that suspension of cost-of-living adjustments was ‘fair.’