Legal Opinion

Bjork v. Eastman Kodak Co.

District Court, W.D. New York

Decided September 25, 2001No. 6:00-cv-06005PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

DECISION AND ORDER

LARIMER, Chief Judge.

Background

In this action, plaintiff Randall Bjork (“Bjork”) claims that Eastman Kodak Company (“Kodak”) wrongfully denied him termination allowance benefits, and that the denial of such benefits by defendant Pamela Cromp, in her capacity as the plan administrator for defendant Kodak Termination Allowance Plan (“TAP” or “the Plan”), was arbitrary and capricious. 1 His suit for benefits falls within the purview of section 502(a)(1)(B) of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), which allows a private plaintiff to sue “to recover…

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  1. Ecklund v. Continental Casualty Co.District Court, N.D. Alabama · 2005

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