Trump’s Pick for Top Benefits Cop Viewed as Plaintiffs’ Bar Foe

President Donald Trump‘s nominee to lead the government’s private-sector benefits enforcer is a fierce critic of “frivolous” class-action litigation against employers, and he wants regulators to take a side by reining in the plaintiffs’ bar.

Management liability insurance executive Daniel Aronowitz has been selected to head up the US Labor Department’s Employee Benefits Security Administration, according to a White House document obtained by Bloomberg Law. If confirmed by the Senate, he would take charge of an agency overseeing millions of workplace health, retirement, and welfare plans covering nearly 153 million employees.

Aronowitz has made his career insuring plan ...