Legal Opinion
James Hall v. Lhaco Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 14, 1998No. 97-3679PublishedCited by 99 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BENNETT, District Judge.
Can a participant in a health benefit plan covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., maintain an action for benefits and other equitable relief against a purported plan administrator who no longer has any connection with his ERISA plan? The appellant, a participant in an ERISA plan, asserts that the district court 1 improperly granted summary judgment to a purported plan adminis trator on the participant’s action for benefits pursuant to § 502(a)(1)(B) of ERISA, 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B), because the court incorrectly…
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