Paul Norman v. United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds

Paul Norman (plaintiff-appellant) brought this action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Labor-Management Relations Act to recover disability benefits from the United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds (defendant-appellee) (Funds). Norman alleged that a provision in the 1950 Pension Plan, requiring that a totally disabled person be eligible for Social Security Disability Insurance under Title II of the Social Security Act as a prerequisite to eligibility for disability benefits under the Plan, was unreasonable and that the Funds’ denial of disability…