Gottesdiener Law Firm, PLLC, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C.,
represents current and former employees in pension class action lawsuits across
the country brought under ERISA – the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act – which is the federal law protecting the rights of current and former
employees in their company’s employee benefit plans. We concentrate on
pension benefit miscalculation claims – i.e., claims that a pension plan
has underpaid benefits due employees under the terms of the plan or as required
by law. These claims most often involve lump sum distributions (or
“cash-outs”) from “defined benefit” pension plans,
usually from what are known as “cash balance” defined benefit
pension plans. Other Firm cases challenge more routine pension benefit miscalculations or
breaches of fiduciary duty by plan administrators which cause harm to the plan
or its participants.
The Firm has, singly or working with pension lawyers, successfully concluded
class actions filed against some of the largest plans in the country (e.g.,
Enron, New York Life, AT&T), recovering hundreds of millions of dollars
for the affected participants. We are currently prosecuting claims against
pension plans sponsored by Bank of America, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and
Colgate-Palmolive. The Firm welcomes inquiries from anyone
interested in our work or in specific cases.
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