In a ruling involving the possible elimination of subsidy ofhealth insurance premiums, an attorney representing several CUNAMutual Group retirees is planning to appeal to the Supreme Court ofthe United States.
|Last summer, a lower court said that CUNA Mutual did not violate provisions of the EmployeeRetirement and Income Security Act and the retirees did not have alegal right to prevent the company from eliminating its subsidy ofhealth insurance premiums.
|According to the ruling, accumulated sick pay the retireesbelieved would be put toward those premiums were included in thesubsidy.
|In a statement, Rick Uhlmann, CUNA Mutual senior manager ofmedia relations, said the latest appeal is not a case that meritsreview by the U.S. Supreme Court. An appeals court had previouslyupheld a lower court's decision that ruled in favor of CUNA Mutual.
|“We are pleased the federal courts in Madison and Chicagodismissed this case, and confirmed CUNA Mutual Group did notviolate the law when it made the difficult decision to endsubsidies for retiree health coverage,” Uhlmann said.
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