What is the status of the Cargill lawsuit?
The entire Cargill employee benefits class action has been settled through a series of three settlements. The first settlement was reached in May 2002. It provides relief solely to those class members who had been employed by MWD as “district temporary employees” (district temps or DTEs) and remained employed as of February 3, 2002. This settlement is referred to as “the Partial DTE Settlement”. The second settlement is class-wide and received court approval on June 12, 2006. This settlement created a monetary fund to compensate class members for certain non-pension employee benefits to the extent that they did not already receive these benefits while working at MWD. This second settlement covers annual leave/vacation pay, holiday pay, merit pay increases, paid contingent leaves (e.g., personal leave, sick leave, disability leave, bereavement leave, military leave and jury leave), severance pay, 401(k) contributions, and health insurance premiums. It also provides class members who rem
