Parties Dispute 6th Circuit Rehearing Bid In ERISA ‘Reasonable Assumptions’ Case

( May 8, 2026, 9:43 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — Retirees have responded to petitions for panel and en banc rehearing at the request of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals following a 2-1 ruling that revived two putative class suits contesting the use of decades-old mortality tables by holding that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act “prohibits employers from using unreasonable, inappropriate actuarial assumptions” when making certain pension annuity calculations....