Legal Opinion
Jones v. Singing River Health Services Foundation
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 27, 2017No. 16-60550PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDITH H. JONES, Circuit Judge:
The Singing River Health System (SRHS), a community hospital owned by Jackson County, Mississippi, created a defined benefits pension fund into which employees have recently been paying three percent of their paychecks and to which SRHS was obliged to contribute whatever additional amounts were actuarially required to fund the Plan’s promised benefits. From 2009-14, however, the hospital fell into serious financial difficulties and made only one plan contribution. The Plan was “frozen” in late November 2014. This appeal considers objections to the settlement of…
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