United States Third Circuit

A party under an ERISA plan does not display bad faith for judicial estoppel purposes if the initial claim was never accepted or adopted by a court or agency, and alternatively, where applying judicial estoppel does not address the harm borne by innocent third parties due to a change of position.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/30/2000
• Decided 03/22/2001
• Published 03/22/2001

Judges

• Before BECKER, Chief Judge, and MAGILL, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William W. Warren, Jr., (Argued), Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, LLP, Harrisburg, PA, Cathleen M. Devlin, Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, LLP, Philadelphia, PA, Counsel for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• E. Thomas Henefer, (Argued), Stevens & Lee, Reading, PA, Charles J. Bloom, Stevens & Lee, Wayne, PA, Counsel for Appellee/Third Party Plaintiff Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York., Daniel Morgan, O'Malley & Harris, Scranton, PA, Counsel for Appellee/Third Party Plaintiff Richard A. Bulger., Daniel T. Brier, Myers, Brier & Kelly, Scranton, PA, Counsel for Appellees/Third Party Defendants Eudora Bennett;  Montrose Medical Arts Pharmacy, Inc.;   Medical Arts Nursing Center, Inc.;   and Medical Arts Clinic.