United States Eleventh Circuit

Participants in an ERISA-governed plan that rely to their detriment on a fiduciary's misrepresentations of the plan's terms may state a claim for "appropriate equitable relief" under ERISA section 502(a)(3) if they have no adequate remedy elsewhere in ERISA's statutory framework.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/18/2004
• Published 05/18/2004

Judges

• DUBINA, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and COX, Circuit Judges, and OWENS , District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas W. Tucker,Dye, Tucker, Everitt, Long & Brewton, P.A., Leroy W. Brigham, John C. Bell, Jr., Bell & James, P.C., Augusta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael G. Monnolly, Gregory C. Braden, Alston & Bird, Atlanta, GA, Robert C. Hagler, Augusta, GA, for Defendant-Appellee.