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.

GLF prosecutes a wide variety of pension cases but most involve 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 often involve lump sum distributions (or “cash-outs”) from “defined benefit” pension plans, including but not limited to “cash balance” defined benefit pension plans. Other claims the Firm prosecutes involve breaches of fiduciary duty by plan administrators which cause harm to the plan or its participants.