United States Tenth Circuit

In a suit resulting from denied life insurance coverage, dismissal of plaintiff's claims is affirmed where the monetary award sought by plaintiff does not constitute "appropriate equitable relief" under section 502(a)(3) of ERISA.

Appellate Information

• Decided 12/13/2004
• Published 12/13/2004

Judges

• KELLY, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, HOLLOWAY, and LUCERO, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Brian S. King, Salt Lake City, UT, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Karen L. Handorf, Deputy Associate Solicitor, (and Elizabeth Hopkins, Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation Plans Benefits Security Division, with her on the brief, Howard M. Radzely, Acting Solicitor of Labor, Timothy D. Hauser, Associate Solicitor, and Adrienne K. Dwyer, Trial Attorney, Plan Benefits Security Division, on the brief), Office of the Solicitor, Plans Benefits Security Division, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae., Mary Ellen Signorille, (and Melvin R. Radowitz, on the brief), AARP Foundation, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae AARP.


• For Appellees:
  
• W. Mark Gavre, Parsons, Behle & Latimer, Salt Lake City, UT, for Defendants-Appellees.