A federal judge has certified a mandatory class-action ERISA suit against CoreStates Bank brought by a group of workers who claim they were deceived about their rights to benefits when the bank considered – and later abandoned – a plan to outsource their jobs. In his 32-page opinion in Feret v. CoreStates Financial Corp., U.S.…

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Former GE Engineer Wins Age Discrimination Case 2

Posted on Oct 10, 1992 by Brittany Carter

After a nine-day trial, a federal jury in Trenton awarded $796,000 in damages Thursday to a former GE Aerospace senior engineer who said the defense contractor discriminated against him on the basis of age when it laid him off in June 1990. Murray Garden, 65, of Oreland, Pa., argued that the way GE Aerospace in…

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