Legal Opinion
Bard v. Boston Shipping Ass'n
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided December 19, 2006No. 06-1810PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
This is an unusually complex denial of benefits case that arises under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. The defendant is a multi-employer pension plan (“BSA-ILA” or “the Plan”), and at issue is a decision by its Board of Trustees (“the Board”) to deny disability benefits to a former employee, Paul Bard. The district court upheld this denial. We reverse and order an award of benefits.
In so doing, we do not reach Bard’s invitation to join those circuits holding that a plan’s ERISA violations will strip it of the deference…
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