Legal Opinion
Edward N. Hughes and Dorothy K. Hughes v. 3m Retiree Medical Plan and Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company ("3m")
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 29, 2002No. 01-1970PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BATTEY, District Judge.
Plaintiffs, retired employees of 3M, appeal the district court’s 3 grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants that allowed 3M to increase premiums for retired employees’ medical benefits. The Hughes bring their claim under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1132(a)(1)(B) and 1132(a)(3). They argue that the district court’s grant of summary judgment was erroneous because 3M provided vested benefits. Even though 3M reserved the right to change the level of disability benefits that retired employees would receive in the…
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