Legal Opinion
Pens. Plan Guide (Cch) P 23945q William E. Karr v. National Asbestos Workers Pension Fund
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 21, 1998No. 97-4129PublishedCited by 13 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The district court granted summary judgment for the defendant — the National Asbestos Pension Fund, a multiemployer pension fund administered by employers of and unions representing asbestos and other insulation workers — in this suit under ERISA for pension benefits by an alleged beneficiary of one of the fund’s pensioners. James Emge retired in 1990 and received a pension application form from the fund. The form gave him a choice between two types of pension. In one, whieh we’ll call “survivorship,” the pension would continue for his wife’s life (Emge was married) if she…
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