NC state health plan seeks to upend state retirees’ long-running health care lawsuit

About this episode

The episode discusses a state Supreme Court case regarding health benefits for state retirees that could overturn previous rulings.

The state Supreme Court on Tuesday heard arguments that could upend a case about state retiree health benefits that’s more than a decade old, potentially overturning yet another of its own rulings. Before 2011, state employees who became vested were promised no-cost health care in retirement as part of their benefits package. But in 2011, […]

Topics covered

• health care
• state retirees
• lawsuit
• state benefits
• Supreme Court
• legal arguments

Keywords

• North Carolina
• health care lawsuit
• state retirees
• Supreme Court
• benefits package

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Organizations: NC Newsline

Places: North Carolina

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