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Second Circuit Upholds Termination of Retired Union Workers’ Benefits Due to Disqualifying Employment

Second Circuit Upholds Termination of Retired Union Workers’ Benefits Due to Disqualifying Employment

In Spillane v. New York City Dist. Council of Carpenters, No. 23-247, 2024 WL 221816 (2d Cir. Jan. 22, 2024), Plaintiff-Appellant Patrick Brendan Spillane and his wife sued his union…

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Third Circuit Rejects Claimants’ Bid to Participate in Chubb Corporation Benefit Plans Because They Were Not Eligible Employees

In Needham v. Chubb Corp., et al., No. 22-1829, 2023 WL 8711814 (3d Cir. Dec. 18, 2023), the Third Circuit considered the ERISA claims brought by Plaintiffs Needham and Dowman,…

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First Circuit Upholds Pension Fund’s Termination of Disability Benefits Due to Disqualifying Employment

In Field v. Sheet Metal Workers’ Nat’l Pension Fund, No. 22-1824, __F.4th__, 2023 WL 6418639 (1st Cir. Oct. 3, 2023), Plaintiff-Appellant David Field appealed the district court’s grant of summary…

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Second Circuit Affirms Multiemployer Pension Plan’s Denial of Retirement Benefits Because Participant Did Not Separate from Covered Employment

In Aracich v. The Board of Trustees of The Employee Benefit Funds of Heat And Frost Insulators Local 12, et al., No. 22-2544-CV, 2023 WL 4692316 (2d Cir. July 24,…

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Seventh Circuit Upholds Fund’s Denial of Disability Pension Benefits Under ERISA Due to Lack of Connection to a Workplace Injury

In Lane v. Structural Iron Workers Loc. No. 1 Pension Tr. Fund, No. 22-1149, __F.4th__, 2023 WL 4554097 (7th Cir. July 17, 2023), Plaintiff-Appellant Jeffery Lane sought a disability pension…

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Ninth Circuit Affirms Defined-Benefit Plan Participant Lacks Standing to Bring Breach-of-Fiduciary-Duty Claims

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently decided an ERISA standing issue in Diaz v. Westco Chemicals, Inc., No. 22-55823, 2023 WL 3615663 (9th Cir. May 24, 2023). The district…

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