Rockwell retiree Rickie Smith is moving forward with allegations that the company shortchanges certain workers’ pensions by using life expectancy data from the 1970s. Smith adequately alleged that this data caused Rockwell to calculate pensions that weren’t the “actuarial equivalent” of a traditional lifetime annuity, as required by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, Judge Lynn Adelman ruled Monday.
Rockwell is one of at…