Employer is reneging on promise to provide paid health insurance to retirees for our lifetime. After 20+ years of service, retirees were to ...

Question

Employer is reneging on promise to provide paid health insurance to retirees for our lifetime. After 20+ years of service, retirees were to receive health insurance, which would be continued as secondary coverage when we qualify for Medicare. Many employees have already satisfied the time requirements to qualify for the benefit. Instead, the Employer is offering retirees up to $3000 per year for 10 years.

We worked for lower wages for years, in exchange for the promise of lifetime health insurance coverage. Now, the premiums will stop when we will need them most. What is our recourse?

Answer

There could, in my opinion, be a very serious, and substantial, legal claim to be brought over this sort of situation. But it is also potentially quite a complicated issue to sort out, I would need a significant amount of additional information to form any firm opinion about what might be advisable to pursue. Since I work strictly on a contingency basis, and do not charge anything to evaluate a case, you have nothing to lose by letting me investigate this Please give me a call to discuss this. I am admitted to practice law in New York and handle cases throughout the United States even though my law office is in Nevada. I can be reached at 1-800-257-4841 or 702-383-6085. My website is overtimelaw.com.