Legal Opinion
Burstein v. Retirement Account Plan for Employees of Allegheny Health Education & Research Foundation
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 2, 2003No. 02-2666PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
GARTH, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff-appellants in this ERISA case appeal from the district court’s dismissal of their First Amended Complaint for failure to state a claim and also challenge the denial of their motion to file a Second Amended Complaint as futile.
The plaintiffs are five former employees of the now-bankrupt Allegheny Health Education and Research Foundation (“AH-ERF”). These plaintiffs sought to recover benefits that they believed they had accrued through AHERF’s Retirement Account Plan. They also sought to represent a class of similarly situated persons,…
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