Ex-Twentieth Century Fox VP Advances ERISA Disclosure Claim

A former Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. vice president who says she was fired and denied severance after declining to switch jobs following a merger with Walt Disney Co. partially advanced her ERISA lawsuit, according to a California federal court ruling.

Bernadette Paine adequately alleged that the defendants failed to provide her with a legally sufficient copy of her severance plan’s summary document, Judge Virginia A. Phillips of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California said in an order docketed Monday.

Walt Disney and Fox argued that Paine couldn’t maintain a fiduciary breach claim under the Employee Retirement ...