Martin v. American Bancorporation Retirement Plan

Reversed and remanded by published opinion. Judge GREGORY wrote the opinion, in which Judge WIDENER and Judge MOTZ joined.

*645OPINION

GREGORY, Circuit Judge:

John Martin, John Samuels, and William Shoaf (collectively “Appellants”), retirees from Wheeling National Bank, both individually and on behalf of a class of retirement plan participants, brought this action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) § 502(a), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a) (2000), claiming additional pension benefits attributable to employee contributions they made to the American Bancorporation Pension Plan prior to…