Dooley v. James A. Dooley Associates Employees Retirement Plan

Plaintiff, decedent’s daughter, sought declaratory and injunctive relief to declare an alleged 1978 beneficiary designation of decedent’s interest under a private retirement plan invalid and legally ineffective to revoke decedent’s prior beneficiary designation of plaintiff. At a bench trial the court found for plaintiff. Mary Connelly, Michael Connelly, John D. Connelly, Lorraine Grau, and Herbert Jackson, as special administrator of the estate of Hope Jackson, deceased (collectively referred to herein as defendants), all claimants under the alleged 1978 designation, appeal. The James A.…