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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Advocate Health Care Network
Current Parent Company: Advocate Aurora Health
Penalty: $1,250,000
Year: 2018
Date: June 27, 2018
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: benefit plan administrator violation
Secondary Offense: pension ERISA violation
Violation Description: To settle a lawsuit alleging that it improperly denied ERISA protections to participants in its pension plan by claiming it was an exempt church plan, Advocate agreed to pay $300 each to class members and $1.25 million to plaintiff's counsel. The court documents do not estimate what the total cost of the payments to the class members would be.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: private litigation
Court: Northern District of Illinois
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Case ID: 1:14-cv-1873
Case Name: Stapleton et al v. Advocate Health Care Network and subsidiaries et al
Private Lawsuit Resolution Type: settlement
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: Illinois
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: non-profit
Major Industry of Current Parent: healthcare services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: hospitals
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