Legal Challenges in Works Over Peia Dropping Future Retirees

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State employee and teachers associations are determining legal strategies for a potential challenge of a Public Employees Insurance Agency Finance Board vote last week to eliminate retiree health insurance benefits for all state and public school employees hired after Jan. 1, 2010.

Judy Hale, president of the West Virginia Federation of Teachers, said Monday that attorney Jeff Blaydes is researching legal options to overturn the vote taken Thursday during an emergency meeting of the PEIA Finance Board.

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Legal Challenges in Works Over Peia Dropping Future Retirees

One issue could be whether the action violated the state Open Meetings Act, since the agenda for the emergency meeting dealt only with the pending dis...

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