RALEIGH (AP) — A decadelong legal fight over whether retired government workers were wronged when North Carolina stopped offering them a more generous level of premium-free health insurance remained unsettled after Friday’s ruling by the state Supreme Court. A majority ...

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By Charlie Davis and Chalk Broughton The Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement Act of 2019 (the SECURE Act), signed into law by President Trump and became effective Jan. 1, has significantly altered the estate planning landscape for qualified ...

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By Lloyd C. Rosenberg I survived. After practicing law just shy of 40 years, I decided it was time to say goodbye. Adios. Hasta la vista, baby. And that’s exactly what I did. I walked out of my office as ...

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Turns out that Florida doesn’t have a monopoly on the retirement game. In a new list of the 25 healthiest places in the country to retire, four of the places are right here in the Tar Heel State, according to ...

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Employees covered by the Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act can claim disability benefits despite voluntary retirement, the circuit court held. After working for Appellee Huntington Ingalls Inc. for 45 years, Appellant Russell Moody gave 90 days’ notice of his ...

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Plotnick v. Computer Sciences Corp. Deferred Compensation Plan for Key Executives (Lawyers Weekly No. 001-195-17, 21 pp.) (Allyson Duncan, J.) 16-1606; Nov. 8, 2017; USDC at Alexandria, Va. (T. S. Ellis III, S.J.) 4th Cir. Holding: An ERISA top hat ...

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — A Winston-Salem based hospital system has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit about its retirement plan. The Winston-Salem Journal reported that Novant Health Inc. has agreed to pay $32 million to settle the lawsuit. The ...

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Hutto v. The South Carolina Retirement System (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-01-1152, 37 pp.) (Niemeyer, J.) No. 13-1523, Dec. 5, 2014; USDC at Florence, S.C. (Childs, J.) 4th Cir. Holding: State pension plan defendants in South Carolina have 11th Amendment immunity ...

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Is Senior U.S. District Court Judge James Fox of Wilmington dreaming of the fully retired life?

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Digh v. Digh (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-16-0999, 11 pp.) (Rick Elmore, J.) Appealed from Burke County District Court (Sherri Elliott, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Since defendant stipulated to the terms of a 1998 consent judgment, he cannot now argue ...

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