United States Sixth Circuit

In a suit brought by retirees under the Labor-Management Relations Act and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), claiming that they were entitled to fully funded, lifetime health care benefits, district court's grant of their motion for summary judgment is reversed and remanded as defendant is entitled to summary judgment because the only coherent reading of the Cap Agreements establishes that the retirees, who retired between 1993-2004, are entitled to lifetime, capped health care benefits.

Appellate Information

• Argued 01/22/2010
• Decided 06/03/2010
• Published 06/03/2010

Judges

• Before SILER, ROGERS, and McKEAGUE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Thomas G. Kienbaum, Kienbaum, Opperwall, Hardy & Pelton, P.L.C., Birmingham, Michigan, for Appellant. Andrew A. Nickelhoff, Sachs Waldman, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellees. ON BRIEF:Thomas G. Kienbaum, William Bruce Forrest, III, Kienbaum, Opperwall, Hardy & Pelton, P.L.C., Birmingham, Michigan, for Appellant. Andrew A. Nickelhoff, Sachs Waldman, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellees.