United States First Circuit

In a dispute over the amount of an employee's pension benefit under an employee benefit plan, summary judgment for employer is affirmed where: 1) employer did not breach its fiduciary duties under ERISA in hiring a ministerial employee who provided incorrect ERISA estimates; and 2) employee had no reasonable reliance on the underlying pension estimates from an "online estimator" coupled with a disclaimer.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/17/2008
• Published 04/17/2008

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, GIBSON, Senior Circuit Judge, and HOWARD, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas G. Moukawsher with whom Moukawsher & Walsh, LLC was on brief for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard P. Ward with whom M. Concetta Burton and Ropes & Gray LLP were on brief for appellees.