United States Fourth Circuit

An ERISA plan administrator cannot, consistent with its fiduciary duty, rely on a general release executed by plaintiff, involving a different plan, to deny her plan benefits.

Appellate Information

• Argued 06/05/2001
• Decided 08/06/2001
• Published 08/06/2001

Judges

• Before WILKINSON, Chief Judge, NIEMEYER, Circuit Judge, and KEELEY, Chief United States District Judge for the Northern District of West Virginia, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Stephen Mark Tilghman, Seidel, Baker & Tilghman, P.A., Salisbury, MD, for Plaintiff-Appellant. John Snowden Stanley, Jr., Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, Baltimore, MD, for Defendant-Appellee. ON BRIEF:  Edgar A. Baker, Jr., Seidel, Baker & Tilghman, P.A., Salisbury, MD, for Plaintiff-Appellant.