Crusto v. Amalgamated Clothing Workers

OPINION

ARCENEAUX, District Judge.

Plaintiffs instituted this action on December 15, 1978, against the Amalgamated Insurance Fund (“Fund”) and Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America (“Union”), under the Labor Management Relations Act (“LMRA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 186, et seq. As the basis for their cause of action against the Fund, the plaintiffs assert that: (1) the Fund arbitrarily and capriciously, and in bad faith, imposed on Mrs. Crusto the requirements of a retirement plan which relies on the Social Security Administration’s (“SSA”) findings of disability, instead of the plan in effect when the…