Click here to view the amicus brief. This is one of a wave of class-action complaints that are designed to extract costly settlements and that ultimately inflate the costs of establishing and administering a plan, which is what Congress sought to avoid in crafting ERISA.
Jaime A. Santos, James O. Fleckner, Alison V. Douglass, and Jordan Bock of Goodwin Procter LLP and the U.S. Chamber’s Litigation Center served as co-counsel for the U.S. Chamber.