Huntington Ingalls Retirees Want Class Status in Pension Fight

Retirees of Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. asked a federal judge in Virginia to certify a 1,400-person class in their lawsuit claiming the military shipbuilder shortchanges certain pensions by calculating benefits using an outdated mortality table.

The proposed class includes union-represented retirees, who began receiving pensions with post-death payments for their surviving spouses over the past six years.

Each class member would receive a higher monthly payment had Huntington used reasonable actuarial assumptions and interest rates to calculate benefits, according to the Dec. 13 motion.

Huntington Ingalls is one of at least 10 large employers that have been sued in recent ...