McGuire v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING IN PART DEFENDANT’S MOTION TO DISMISS AND DISMISSING COUNT IV WITH PREJUDICE

THOMAS L. LUDINGTON, District Judge.

In 1937 and 1951 — long before the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) — Union Carbide Corporation (“UCC”) contracted with Defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and Prudential Insurance Company of America (“Prudential”) to provide annuities to UCC employees. Those 1937 and 1951 agreements (the “Contracts”) are administered by the Union Carbide Employees’ Pension Plan (the “Plan”).

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