ELECTRICAL WORKERS (IBEW)
Rhode Island Fund Trustees to Repay $24,000
U.S. Dist. Judge Ronald R. Lagueux (D.R.I., Reagan) ordered the trustees
of the Int'l Bhd. of Elec. Workers Local
Union 99 Health & Welfare Fund Jan. 11 to repay $24,000 to cover
improper benefit payments. A suit, filed in May 2001 by the Dep't of Labor
claimed the board of trustees had violated a law protecting employee pension
and welfare benefit plans. Allegedly, from Jan. 1994 and Dec. 31, 1995,
trustees of for the Providence, R.I., based fund failed to adequately
ensure the accuracy of employee eligibility data. As a result, payments
were made to seven ineligible people. Lagueux's judgment also bars the
defendants from committing similar infractions in the future. [Providence
J.-Bull. 1/12/02]
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