Pension claimants may seek to pierce corporate veil

Pension claimants may seek to pierce corporate veil

A federal District Court in Minnesota has held that a pension plan for employees of a publishing house for the Evangelical  Lutheran Church is a “church plan” not subject to liability under the federal ERISA rules, but has allowed claimants to seek to pierce the corporate veil between the publishing house and the church in order to pursue state law claims for breach of contract.

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