McKain Law, PLLC v. Brutvan

OPINION OF THE COURT

Phillip R. Rumsey, J.

Petitioner law firms — McKain Law, PLLC (McKain Law) and Coughlin and Gerhart, LLP (C & G) — represented respondent in a federal court action, commenced pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (29 USC § 1001 et seq.) (ERISA), to recover disability benefits allegedly due him (Brutvan v CIGNA Life Ins. Co. of N.Y.) (the underlying action), in which the court denied defendants’ motion for summary judgment, granted summary judgment to plaintiff (respondent herein) on the issue of liability, and noted that it would schedule a trial…