Battoni versus ibew local union


Read the Battoni v. IBEW Local Union No. 102 Employee Pension Plan case and answer the following:

Question 1. What were the legal issues in this case? What did the court decide?

Question 2. Since the anti-cutback provisions of ERISA apply only to pensions and not welfare plans, what did changing the conditions under which retiree health care benefits were available run afoul of the anti-cutback rule?

Question 3. In what sense were the accrued pension benefits of these employees reduced?

Question 4. What should the benefit plan have done instead?

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