Legal Opinion

Cummings v. Briggs & Stratton Retirement Plan

Court of Appeals for the First Circuit

Decided July 21, 1986No. 85-2871PublishedCited by 33 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

797 F.2d 383

55 USLW 2166, 7 Employee Benefits Ca 1958

Barbara Jean CUMMINGS, a minor, by her Guardian ad Litem,

Willard P. TECHMEIER, and Laverne H. Cummings, Special

Administratrix of the Estate of Dennis G. Cummings,

Plaintiff-Appellees, Cross-Appellants,

v.

BRIGGS & STRATTON RETIREMENT PLAN, the First Wisconsin Trust

Company, Plan Trustee, and Briggs & Stratton

Retirement Committee, Plan

Administrator,

Defendants-

Appellants,

Cross-Appellees.

No. 85-2871, 85-2936.

United States Court of Appeals,

Seventh Circuit.

Argued May 29, 1986.

Decided July 21, 1986.

David R. Cross, Quarles & Brady, Milwaukee, Wis.,…

2Cases cited11 opinions

  1. Mitchell v. Robert DeMario Jewelry, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1960
  2. Francis Van Orman, on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of a Class of All Participants, Continuing Former Employees, Pensioners, Beneficiaries and Contingent Survivors, as Such Persons Are Defined in the Revised Retirement Plan of the American Insurance Company, American Automobile Insurance Company and Associated Indemnity Corporation ("Tarp") v. The American Insurance Company, the American Automobile Insurance Company, the Associated Indemnity Corporation, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Company, Tarp, and Fireman's Fund American Retirement Plan("farp"), Robert P. J. Cooney and Jack B. McCowan Nellie Taylor, Andrew Marsh, Ulice M. Hoover, Peggy Laing, Richard Shultis and Waldermar Ogren, on Their Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Participants and Beneficiaries Similarly Situated v. The American Insurance Company, the American Automobile Insurance Company, the Associated Indemnity Corporation, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Company, Robert P. J. Cooney, Jack B. McCowan and Tarp, Francis Van Orman, on His Own Behalf and on Behalf of All Participants and Beneficiaries Similarly Situated, and Ulice M. Hoover, Nellie Taylor, Peggy Laing, Andrew Marsh, Richard Shultis, and Waldemar H. Ogren, on Behalf of Those and All Other Persons Similarly Situated, in No. 81-2784. The American Insurance Company, the American Automobile Insurance Company, Theassociated Indemnity Corporation, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company,fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Company, Tarp, and Farp, Robert P. j.cooney and Jack b.mccowan and the American Insurance Company, the American Automobile Insurance Company, the Associated Indemnity Corporation, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Company, Robert P. J. Cooney, Jack B. McCowan and Tarp, in No. 81-2785 the American Insurance Company, American Automobile Insurance Company, Associated Indemnity Corporation, Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, the Revised Retirement Plan of the American Insurance Company, Fireman's Fund American Retirement Plan, Robert P. J. Cooney and Jack B. McCowan and Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, American Insurance Company, American Automobile Insurance Company, Associated Indemnity Corporation, the Revised Retirement Plan of the American Insurance Company, Associated Indemnity Corporation, Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance Company, Robert P. J. Cooney, and Jack B. McCowan in No. 81-2786Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1982
  3. Thomas Menhorn v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1984
  4. Mrs. Geneva B. Phillips v. William J. KennedyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1976
  5. Richards v. RichardsWisconsin Supreme Court · 1973

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3Cited by33 opinions

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