Legal Opinion
Cossack v. Burns
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided July 9, 1997No. 1:95-cv-01837PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM-DECISION & ORDER
McAVOY, Chief Judge.
I. BACKGROUND 1
Plaintiff Thomas Cossack brings suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) against his union, his pension fund, and the fund’s trustees to recover retirement pension benefits. Plaintiff also brings suit under New York State law for breach of contract and estoppel. Essentially, Cossack alleges that after 39 years of service, the Ironworkers Local No. 12 Pension Fund (“Local 12 Plan”) improperly granted him only 8.8 years of pension credits.
In 1953, Cossack began work as an iron-worker on permit. In 1957, he…
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