Collins v. Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.

KAREN LeCRAFT HENDERSON, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether defendant Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) must pay attorneys’ fees beyond an agreed ten-year period for wrapping up a class-action settlement. Counsel for named plaintiffs Mary Collins and E stella Page and the plaintiff class assert that the PBGC violated the wrap-up agreement by doing too little to identify and make payments to class members. The district court denied counsel’s motion to compel payment of fees that they say should have been but were not paid as a result of the PBGC’s alleged footdragging.…