Legal Opinion
Robert B. Reich, Secretary of Labor v. Continental Casualty Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 22, 1994No. 93-3467PublishedCited by 136 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The Department of Labor appeals from the dismissal of a suit that it brought against an insurance company for monetary relief under ERISA. The trustees of a union pension fund had obtained from Continental Casualty Company a one-year extension of the fiduciary liability insurance policy that Continental had previously issued to them. According to the Department of Labor, the extension provided only $1 million in additional coverage yet Continental charged a premium of $970,000 for the extension and the fund paid the premium. The Department sued both the trustees and…
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