6th Circuit Won’t Rehear ERISA Cases Its ‘Reasonable Assumptions’ Ruling Revived

( May 27, 2026, 9:35 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — After requesting responses to petitions for panel and en banc rehearing regarding a split ruling that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act “prohibits employers from using unreasonable, inappropriate actuarial assumptions” when making certain pension annuity calculations, the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals denied the petitions with only a procedural explanation, letting stand the revival of two putative class suits contesting the use of decades-old mortality tables....