United States Ninth Circuit
Blankenship v. Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston, 05-15077
An award of disability benefits following a court trial on claims under ERISA is affirmed over plan administrator's claims of error that: 1) the disability benefits owed plaintiff should have been reduced by the amount of retirement benefits transferred to his Individual Retirement Account (IRA) upon his retirement; and 2) the use of a 10.01-percent interest rate to calculate prejudgment interest was improper.
Appellate Information
- Argued 11/13/2006
- Decided 05/18/2007
- Published 05/18/2007
Judges
- Before WILLIAM C. CANBY, JR., JOHN T. NOONAN, and RICHARD A. PAEZ, Circuit Judges.
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit
Counsel
- For Appellees:
- Mark G. Bonino, Pamela E. Cogan, Kathryn C. Curry, Elisa Nadeau, San Jose, CA, for the defendant-appellant., Scott Kalkin, San Francisco, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.