Large corporations have paid $6.2 billion in claims brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act since 2000, according to Good Jobs First, a non-profit advocacy that promotes corporate and government accountability.

In the past two decades, 201 class-action settlements or verdicts have been issued involving Fortune 1000 companies.

The largest was reached in 2014 for $480 million in a suit brought against Daimler's retiree health care plan.

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