Legal Opinion
Coan v. Kaufman
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 21, 2006No. Docket No. 04-5173-CVPublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents several difficult questions regarding the ability of a former employee who participated in a retirement plan established pursuant to section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code to bring suit against the plan’s trustees for breach of fiduciary duty under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq.1 Plaintiff Karen Coan was the controller of a company called KLC Inc. Coan asserts that KLC president Alan Kaufman and vice-president Edgar Lee, as trustees of two employee retirement funds included in the company’s 401(k)…
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