DENVER (Legal Newsline) – A $6.15 million settlement has been approved in a lawsuit against United Airlines between it and more than 1,100 airline pilots who claimed the airline violated the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act.

James Daniel Tuten filed the lawsuit in 2012, on behalf of current and former United Airlines pilots for whom United allegedly failed to make the full pension contributions required by federal law for periods in which pilots took military leave to serve in the United States Armed Forces between 2000 and 2010.

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