Legal Opinion
Springer v. Wal-Mart Associates' Group Health Plan
District Court, N.D. Alabama
Decided June 6, 1989No. Civ. A. 88-AR-5226-NWPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
ACKER, District Judge.
The above-entitled action was brought by Ethelene Springer against Wal-Mart Associates’ Group Health Plan (the Plan) under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001, et seq. It was tried by the court with an advisory jury whose findings are, of course, not binding on the court. Through the pre-trial conference, defendant was called “Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Health and Welfare Trust”, but the parties have now agreed that the correct name of defendant Plan is “Wal-Mart Associates’ Group Health Plan.”
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