Legal Opinion
Abbruscato v. Empire Blue Cross & Blue Shield
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 6, 2001No. Docket No. 00-9490PublishedCited by 35 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
In this case brought pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et seq, appellants challenge defendant-appellee Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s (“Empire”) reduction in life insurance benefits to former employees who retired after January 1, 1989. Our decision in Kunkel v. Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield, 274 F.3d 76 (2d Cir.2001), also issued today, concerned a similar challenge to this same reduction. In Kunkel, we vacated the district, court’s grant of summary judgment to Empire, principally concluding that the district…
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