Mo-Kan Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund v. Clark

SHANGLER, Judge.

The plaintiffs Mo-Kan Teamsters Health & Welfare Fund, a Trust Fund, and the individual Trustees, brought this action for interpleader to determine the rightful beneficiary of a death benefit. The Trust Fund provides a death benefit of $15,000, with an additional benefit of $7500 for death by accident, to an eligible participant and employee of the plan. James Dean Clark, an employee and eligible participant of the plan, died in an automobile accident on May 25, 1985. The death benefit due was $22,-*62500. The plan provides that an employee may designate a beneficiary for the death…