The Lisbon Reporter

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Take A Look At What Is Happening Elsewhere In Maine

"Retiree health benefits cut spurs lawsuit

By Nick Sambides Jr.
BDN Staff

MILLINOCKET, Maine — A Town Council vote in May to cut health care benefits to 48 retired town employees has set off a class-action lawsuit against the town filed by some of the retirees and three town workers.

Police Chief Donald Bolduc, Public Works Director Dennis Cox and police Officer Jon Glidden are among the 33 plaintiffs. The plaintiffs seek unspecified monetary damages, including restored retiree health benefits, court costs, attorneys’ fees and “other relief the Court deems just and proper,” according to paperwork released Monday by Penobscot County Superior Court officials.

The plaintiffs claim that the council’s vote represented a breach of contract — a broken promise of lifelong life and group hospitalization insurance coverage that, when made decades ago, caused them to seek less pay"