Dennison v. Mony Life Retirement Income Security Plan for Employees

POSNER, Circuit Judge.

The district court certified this ERISA suit as a class action, dismissed one of the two claims in the suit, and granted the defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the other one. The plaintiff appeals, raising issues of plan interpretation and also complaining about the district judge’s refusal to allow him to conduct discovery to determine whether the plan’s rejection of his claim was motivated by a conflict of interest. The only class member about whom there is information in the appellate record is the plaintiff.

He left MONY (Mutual of New York Insurance Company,…