Class Action Says Marriott International Broke ERISA Laws [UPDATE]
Last Updated on February 28, 2020
Vazquez v. Marriott International, Inc.
Filed: January 17, 2017 ◆§ 8:17-cv-00116-MSS-MAP
Out of Florida district court comes a proposed class action claiming Marriott International, Inc. violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
Case Updates
Update – October 2, 2019 – Case Settled
The lawsuit detailed on this page has been settled. Though few specifics of the agreement are available, notice of the settlement was filed in U.S. District Court in Florida’s Tampa Division on September 26, 2019. The parties reportedly reached an agreement prior to a settlement conference scheduled for November 7 before U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven.
According to the plaintiff’s notice of settlement, a joint preliminary motion for settlement approval is slated to be filed in the near future. The lawsuit reportedly covered more than 19,000 former Marriott workers.
Out of Florida district court comes a proposed class action claiming Marriott International, Inc. violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), as amended by the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), by allegedly failing to provide adequate notice to participants in and beneficiaries of its health insurance plan of their right to continued COBRA coverage upon the occurrence of a “qualifying event.”
The Florida woman who filed the 39-page lawsuit was employed by Marriott before her termination – a qualifying event – in October 2016. She alleges Marriott “authored and disseminated a notice that was not appropriately completed,” thereby deviating from what is required by federal law.
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