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Civil Litigation,
Health Care & Hospital Law

Dec. 13, 2019

$84M health benefits deal ends decade of acrimony between UC and lab workers

Nearly 10 years of contentiousness between the retirees from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the university began after the U.S. Department of Energy transferred the lab’s management from the school to a private company.

After nearly 10 years of litigation, a group of retirees from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory have reached an $84.5 million settlement with the University of California over the termination of their school-sponsored health care benefits.

The university's Board of Regents will pay $80 million over the next seven years, with $20 million earmarked for compensation while the rest goes toward upgrading the retirees' medical be...

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