The Athens-Clarke County government has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a federal class action claiming the municipality shortchanged retirees who were promised “no cost” health care benefits as part of their pay package.

The motion for settlement filed late Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia provides for retrospective settlement checks to be mailed to about 500 retirees and their survivors and bumps the monthly sums they and future retirees in the class will receive to pay for health insurance going forward.

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]