Bankrupt Steward Health Care System LLC reached an agreement with Massachusetts to receive $30 million through state-sponsored programs to keep its hospitals running as they transition to new ownership.

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation has approved the application submitted to the Special Financial Assistance program by the New England Teamsters Plan, the PBGC announced Monday.

The claims against the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority by a bus operator who said he was discriminated against for taking leave to care for his newborn daughter may proceed, but his retaliation claims were dismissed by a federal court.

Participants in a sheet metal workers’ pension plan received initial approval for a class settlement valued at more than $2.5 million that would boost the pensions of about 25 retirees who were approved for unreduced early retirement benefits.

A plumbers’ pension fund owes more than three years’ worth of retroactive benefits to a worker who spent the later years of his career in a supervisory role not covered by his union contract.

Norfolk Southern Corp. should continue to face an investor lawsuit alleging that the company failed to disclose increased risk-taking practices prior to a 2023 train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, a federal magistrate judge said in a recommendation.