Insurance & Pension Benefits

Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec represents both individuals and classes of people with regard to employee benefit plans. These cases are brought under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), the federal law that protects the rights of employees and retirees in company benefit plans.

We have successfully litigated ERISA cases involving fiduciary breach and the termination or modification of benefit plans, as well as large and small individual disability, health, pension, 401(k), and severance benefit claim cases.

Stember Feinstein Doyle Payne & Kravec is known throughout the country for a series of ERISA class action cases challenging cuts to retiree health benefits. These cases have been litigated against such companies as General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, PPG Industries, Morton Salt, Sunoco, General Tire, Rexam, and Crown Cork & Seal. Our ERISA cases have received wide-spread press coverage, including front-page stories in the Wall Street Journal and an entire episode on the PBS television show, Now.

We also have brought a number of class actions to recover losses to participants in 401(k) plans and ESOPs from fiduciaries' imprudent investments in employer stock. The firm currently has cases pending against Wachovia, Sovereign Bancorporation, Regions Bank, and First Horizon National Bank.

If you believe you may not be receiving the insurance or pension benefits that you have earned or paid for, please call us at 412.281.8400 or contact us online.