Actors Guild Health Change Affecting Older Members Survives Test

The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists defeated a lawsuit claiming older actors were wrongly forced off their health insurance coverage by a 2020 change in how residual earnings are treated, a California federal court ruling shows.

Claims that the union breached its duty of fair representation are time-barred by the National Labor Relations Act’s six-month statute of limitations, Judge Christina A. Snyder of the US District Court for the Central District of California said. Union members had notice of the complained-of plan changes by at least August 2020 but didn’t file suit until August of the ...