Legal Opinion
Gloria Sladek v. Bell System Management Pension Plan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 31, 1989No. 88-1971PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRANT, Senior District Judge.
The appellant, Gloria Sladek, filed the instant action in district court under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA” or “the Act”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, to set aside her husband’s pension election as voidable due to incompetency. Mr. Sladek, a qualified participant in an employee benefit plan governed by the Act, elected to forego the survivor annuity option offered by the defendant-plan, the Bell System Management Pension Plan (“the Plan”), in order to receive full pension benefits during his lifetime. The appellant brought this suit as a…
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