United States Eleventh Circuit

Order of final summary judgment entered in defendant's favor on their claims brought under the federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) is affirmed over claims that the plans did not allow accelerated payments, the one-time lump-sum payment in essence amounted to a reduction in benefit payments in violation of the express terms of the plans, and the lump-sum payment failed to account for the joint and survivor annuity payments.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/27/2006
• Published 03/27/2006

Judges

• MARCUS, Circuit Judge:, Before DUBINA and MARCUS, Circuit Judges, and GOLDBERG, Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Christopher Douglas Vaughn, George Melville Johnson & Associates, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• William P. Sweeney, James J. Convery, Laner, Muchin, Dombrow, Becker, Levin & Tominberg, Chicago, IL, for Defendant-Appellee.