United States Third Circuit

In a husband and wife's suit against husband's former employer alleging a violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), claiming that the employer breached its fiduciary duty owed to them as participant and beneficiary under the employer pension plan through a series of misleading letters regarding the husband's pension benefits, district court's grant of employer's motion for summary judgment is affirmed on partly different grounds as neither the husband, as a participant, nor the wife, as a beneficiary, can establish a breach of fiduciary duty claim when the alleged reliance stems from the decision that the wife, a non-employee, should retire.

Appellate Information

• Argued 09/15/2010
• Decided 11/02/2010
• Published 11/02/2010

Judges

• FISHER

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Glen S. Downey, Michael J. Newman