Hotel Industry Workers Lose Class Suit Over Plan Fees (Correct)

A class of California hospitality industry workers failed to prove harm in a lawsuit against their health-care fund alleging excessive administrative expenses, a federal judge ruled.

Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer of the Northern District of Illinois granted a motion for summary judgment Tuesday for Unite Here Health, a multiemployer welfare fund that provides benefits to roughly 110,000 workers in the hotel, gaming, and food service industries.

“Plaintiffs have what may be meritorious criticisms of UHH’s overall allocation policy, but they have not shown how that policy caused them actual harm, nor have they established that the policy UHH employs to ...