United States Sixth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants in a suit brought by former employees under ERISA and state tort laws is reversed in part as to summary judgment in favor of a company's healthcare plan administrator where the administrator exercised at least partial control over plan assets and, to the extent that it did so, qualified as an ERISA fiduciary.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/13/2006
• Published 04/13/2006

Judges

• Before:  RYAN, CLAY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  David L. Leightty, Leightty & Associates, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants.  Robert W. Bishop, Bishop & Associates, Louisville, Kentucky, David Domene, Blackburn, Hundley & Domene, Louisville, Kentucky, William D. Roberts, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  David L. Leightty, Leightty & Associates, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellants.  Robert W. Bishop, Bishop & Associates, Louisville, Kentucky, David Domene, Blackburn, Hundley & Domene, Louisville, Kentucky, William D. Roberts, A. Courtney Guild, Jr., Jay P. Turner, Hall, Render, Killian, Heath & Lyman, Louisville, Kentucky, for Appellees.