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HONOLULU JOINT APPRENTICESHIP & TRAINING COMM. OF UNITED ASS'N LOCAL UNION NO. 675

Contracts, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
A union training program operator's action to enforce terms of an agreement with a trainee, seeking costs advanced under a scholarship loan agreement,...

KEEN v. WEAVER

ERISA
ERISA does not preclude a pension plan beneficiary from waiving an interest in the plan, and a former wife's waiver of her interest in ERISA plans was...

SHAVER v. OPERATING ENG'RS LOCAL 248 PENSION TRUST FUND

ERISA
Expenditure records sought by appellants were not "instruments" under ERISA, 29 U.S.C. section 1024(b)(4), and were not subject to disclosure...

MUSMECI v. SCHWEGMANN GIANT SUPER MARKETS, INC.

Class Actions, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employer's grocery voucher plan is governed by ERISA, and a self-insured retention in a policy covering an employer's liability for employee...

MUSMECI v. SCHWEGMANN GIANT SUPER MARKETS, INC.

Class Actions, ERISA, Insurance Law, Labor & Employment Law
An employer's grocery voucher plan is governed by ERISA, and a self-insured retention in a policy covering an employer's liability for employee...

TRUSTEES OF THE NAT'L ELEVATOR INDUS. PENSION v. LUTYK

Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
A company's financial insolvency and subsequent "highly suspect" loan payments made to shareholders supported the district court's decision to pierce...

LOPES v. METRO. LIFE INS. CO.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Defendant did not violate the Employment Retirement Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. sections 1001-1461, in terminating plaintiff's long-term...

SHIELDS v. READER'S DIGEST ASS'N, INC.

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
When an ERISA-governed plan is not under an obligation to make benefit payments by a plan participant's actual retirement date, the applicable...

LISTON v. UNUM CORP. OFFICER SEVERANCE PLAN

Corporation & Enterprise Law, ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
Although plaintiff's job and travel schedule became more demanding after change of control of her company, such change was not great enough to trigger...

BLACK & DECKER DISABILITY PLAN v. NORD

ERISA, Labor & Employment Law
ERISA does not require plan administrators making disability determinations to accord special deference to the opinions of treating physicians, over...