United States Second Circuit

Administrators of a pension plan sufficiently stated ERISA and state claims for indemnity and contribution where a plan participant sought relief retroactive to the time when insurer administered the plan, and deficiencies in the plan attributable to the insurer may have proximately caused (under a negligence theory) or "enabled" (under ERISA) any deficiencies in the plan's reformation.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/28/2002
• Decided 05/20/2002
• Published 05/21/2002

Judges

• JACOBS, Circuit Judge., Before KEARSE, JACOBS and KEITH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Charles Pergue, New York, NY, (Larry Cary, Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, P.C., on the brief), for Defendants-Third-Party-Plaintiffs-Appellants and Third-Party Plaintiff-Appellant., Thomas A. Martin, New York, N.Y. (Steven R. Shapiro, Putney, Twombly, Hall & Hirson, LLP, on the brief), for Third-Party Defendant-Appellee.