Gaunt v. CSX Transportation, Inc.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

MILLER, District Judge.

This cause is before the court on the defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the former Sharon Smith’s two-count complaint that defendant CSX Transportation, Inc. (“CSX”) violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. (“ERISA”), with respect to her late husband, H. Freeman Smith. CSX denied the plaintiff’s claim for voluntary severance pay benefits as Mr. Smith’s beneficiary. The plaintiff, now known as Sharon Gaunt, has exhausted all administrative remedies available to her and now seeks a resolution from…