United States Ninth Circuit
Estate of Burton v. ADT Security Servs. Pension Fund, 13-56379
In an action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) challenging a denial of pension benefits on the basis that the plaintiff did not have sufficient years of service with an employer or its affiliates, the District Court's judgment after a bench trial in favor of defendants is reversed where the burden of proving entitlement to benefits was not properly placed on the plaintiff because the defendants were in a better position to ascertain whether an entity was a participating employer in the ERISA plan.
Appellate Information
- Decided
- Published 2016/04/21
Judges
- OWENS
Court
- United States Ninth Circuit