Legal Opinion
Robinson v. Sheet Metal Workers' National Pension Fund
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided July 27, 2006No. 3:05CV917 (MRK)PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
MARK R. KRAVITZ, District Judge.
Plaintiffs Robert Robinson, Jr. and Thomas Donohue bring this action on behalf of themselves and other similarly situated individuals who retired from the sheet-metal trade on Industry-Related Disability (“IRD”) benefits under the Sheet Metal Workers’ National Pension Fund (the “Plan”) between January 1, 1994, and December 31, 2004. Plaintiffs sue the Plan, 1 the Plan’s Trustees, and the Plan’s administrator, claiming that Defendants improperly amended the Plan in 2004 to reduce IRD benefits for those earning more than $35,000 in a given…
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