The board of trustees of the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan said today that it will “vigorously contest” a class action lawsuit filed on Tuesday, calling it “entirely without merit.” Facing staggering deficits, the Plan announced in August that it will be raising premiums and earnings thresholds for coverage on January 1 in order to stay afloat, which will remove thousands of current recipients from coverage. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, claims that the coming benefit changes “illegally discriminate based on age and violate the Age Discrimination and Employment Act of 1967,” and are a breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. The 10 named plaintiffs in the suit include former SAG president Ed Asner and David Jolliffe, currently a vice president of the union’s Los Angeles Local – both of whom are leaders of the union’s dissident faction that spearheaded the lawsuit. SAG and AFTRA merged in 2012, and their health plans merged in 2017. Related Story SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Cuts ‘Illegally Discriminate Based On Age’, Class-Action Lawsuit Says “The lawsuit filed against the Board of Trustees of the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan (and the former SAG Health Plan) is entirely without merit,”… Read full this story
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