HP Inc., the Palo Alto, California based technology company will transfer $5.2 Billion in pension liabilities to Prudential Insurance Company of America as of October 31, 2021. HP disclosed this information in its recent 10-Q filing. This represents approximately one-half of HP’s U.S. pension liabilities. The pension de-risking transfer affects some 41,000 retirees and beneficiaries.
Last month, on July 12, 2021, in Consumer Financial Protection Bureau v. Access Funding, LLC, et al, (Case No. 16-3759, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland) Judge Ellen Hollander denied a motion to dismiss the amended complaint and a motion for a judgment on the pleadings. The amended complaint filed in 2017 against Access Funding, […]
This August 2, 2021 Washington Post feature article examines the controversial practice of “race-norming” and its use by the NFL in determining compensation for former players in the NFL Concussion Settlement. The Washington Post’s investigation found that “the NFL and Seeger are responsible for building a settlement claims process that guaranteed race-norming would occur, making […]
Lockheed Martin transferred $4.9 billion in pension obligations to two of Bermuda based Athene’s subsidiaries, Athene Annuity and Life Company and Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York. This is Lockheed’s second pension risk transfer transaction with Athene, and s is Lockheed’s fourth pension de-risking transfer in the last two years. In 2019, […]
Just one day after the NFL announced that it would work to end the use of “race-norming” in the NFL Concussion Settlement, U.S. District Judge Anita Brody (E.D. Pa.) granted the request of two former Pittsburgh Steelers, Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport to intervene in the mediation between the NFL and class counsel, Chris Seeger. […]
Arconic Corporation, the aluminum provider based in Pittsburgh transferred $1 Billion in pension liabilities to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company. This transaction affected approximately 8,400 Arconic retirees or beneficiaries. Prior to the transfer, Arconic made a $250 million contribution to its US pension funds. MassMutual assumes responsibility for making payments to the retirees and beneficiaries […]
Senior financial reporter for the NBC News Investigative Unit, Gretchen Morgenson delved into the issue of pension de-risking in an exposé published on June 14, 2020. Morgenson interviewed Karen Friedman of the Pension Rights Center, and Thomas Gober, a certified fraud examiner who has worked as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice, and […]
General Electric (GE) recently announced that it had transferred $1.7 Billion of its pension liabilities to two insurance companies owned by Athene Holding Ltd. The two insurance companies are Athene Annuity and Life company and Athene Annuity & Life Assurance Company of New York. The pension risk transfer, or pension de-risking transfer affects approximately 70,000 […]
Together with attorneys from Zuckerman Spaeder and J.R. Wyatt Law, in a lawsuit filed on August 25, 2020 in federal court in Philadelphia, Edward Stone Law is representing two Black retired NFL players, Kevin Henry and Najeh Davenport, who claim that the NFL deliberately manipulated ex-players’ “cognitive function” test scores in a way that made […]
Here at Edward Stone Law, we get phone calls every day from people who feel they have been taken advantage of by factoring companies when selling their structured settlement payments. One of the most common things we hear is that sellers have been told it is legal to go to another state and sell their […]
