Legal Opinion
Terrance Berger and Donald Laxton v. Axa Network LLC and Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 18, 2006No. 05-2495PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RIPPLE, Circuit Judge.
Section 510 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1140, prevents employers from altering their workers’ employment status for the purpose of interfering with rights under an ERISA-qualified benefit plan. The named plaintiffs in this class action, two insurance salesmen, have invoked § 510 against their employers, AXA Network LLC and the Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States (collectively, “AXA”). They allege that AXA intentionally deprived them of benefits by changing the way that insurance salesmen are defined as full-time…
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