Supreme Court of the United States / October Term 2025

M & K Employee Solutions, Inc. v. Trustees of IAM Nat. Pension

Decided May 21, 2026. Ketanji Brown Jackson delivered the opinion of the Court.

Docket 23-1209 · 608 U.S. ___ (2026)

Holding

The provisions of ERISA governing the calculation of withdrawal liability from an underfunded Multiemployer Pension Plan— i.e., the withdrawing employer’s share of the plan’s unfunded vested benefits—do not require that actuarial assumptions underlying the calculation be selected on or before the statutory measurement date. 29 U. S. C. §§1391, 1393.

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