Indiana ERISA Law

Angela Jones v. Prudential Insurance Company of America

Fort Wayne, Indiana employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on an E.R.I.S.A. law theory. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established retirement and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans. ... More...

$1 (11-03-2023 - IN)

Vicki Ziemer v. Aetna Life Insurance Company

Hammond, Indiana employment law lawyer represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on an E.R.I.S.A. law theory. The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) is a federal law that sets minimum standards for most voluntarily established retirement and health plans in private industry to provide protection for individuals in these plans.... More...

$0 (01-10-2024 - IN)

Elevance Health, Inc. v. Vinod Mohan

Indianapolis, Indiana commercial litigation lawyers represented the Plaintiff who sued the Defendant on a misappropriation of trade secrets theory. n August 22, 2023, Plaintiff Elevance Health, Inc. ("Elevance") filed this diversity action against its former employee, Defendant Vinod Mohan ("Ms. Mohan"), alleging that Ms. Mohan misappropriated trade secrets. Dkt. 1. Elevance also fil... More...

$0 (09-15-2023 - IN)

Mark McClaskey v. CWG Plastering, LLC

Walter “Wally” Gianino owned and operated a plastering company in St. Louis, Missouri, for over thirty years. That business—Gianino Plastering—abruptly closed in 2012. Around the same time, Wally’s son, Curt Gianino, who had worked at Gianino Plastering for over a decade, founded his own company, CWG Plastering, LLC. CWG took on at least some of Gianino Plastering... More...

$0 (07-31-2018 - IN)

Grace Schools v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The district court entered a preliminary injunction in favor of the plaintiffs, a number of religious, not-for-profit organizations, preventing the defendants from applying or enforcing the so-called “contraceptive mandate” of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (“ACA”) to the plaintiffs. See 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-13(a)(4); Pub. 2 Nos. 14-1430 & 14-1... More...

$0 (09-04-2015 - IN)

Grace Schools v. Sylvia Mathews Burwell

The ACA requires group health plans and third-party administrators of self-insured plans to cover preventive care for women under guidelines supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (“HRSA”), a component of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”). 42 U.S.C. § 300gg-13(a)(4); 45 C.F.R. § 147.130(a)(1)(iv); University of Notre Dame v. Burwell, 786 F.3d 606,... More...

$0 (09-06-2015 - IN)

Robert Yeftich v. Navistar, Inc.

We review here the dismissal of a complaint filed by a group of unionized workers at a Navistar engine plant in Indianapolis, Indiana. The 2 No. 12-2964 plaintiffs alleged that they were laid off by Navistar and not rehired as work became available because the company had actually subcontracted their work to nonunion plants in contravention of the governing collective-bargaining agre... More...

$0 (06-18-2013 - IN)

Zena Phillips v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America

Plaintiff Zena Phillips was a beneficiary of a life insurance policy taken out by her fiancÃ©, Michael Strang, and issued by Defendant Pruco 2 No. 11-3870 Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Defendant Prudential Life Insurance Company of America (together, "Prudentialâ€). When Strang died, Prudential informed Phillips that the default method for paying the claim was th... More...

$0 (05-07-2013 - IN)

Blanca Gomez v. St. Vincent Health, Inc.

When Blanca Gomez and Joan Wagner-Barnett left their jobs with St. Vincent Health, Inc. (the "Companyâ€), they did not receive notices describing how to extend their health insurance coverage within the period prescribed by statute. Responding to a solicitation from a lawyer, Barnett and Gomez became the named plaintiffs in a proposed class action seeking damages from and statutory penalties ... More...

$0 (08-15-2011 - IN)

Jeff Whitel v. Anthony Moravec

Plaintiffs worked for Waste Reduction, Inc., at its facilities in Indiana, until they were laid off in 2006. The next year Waste Reduction entered bankruptcy in Michigan. Plaintiffs filed claims for overdue wages and fringe benefits. Their wage claims were allowed and paid, but they remained dissatisfied. Indiana imposes penalties on employers that tarry in remitting wages, see Ind. Code Â§Â§ ... More...

$0 (02-16-2011 - IN)

Joseph J. Nelson and Michael Wycoff, etc. v. John r. Hodowal, et al.

Indianapolis Power & Light Company maintains not only a defined-benefit pension plan but also a defined-contribution supplemental plan called the "Thrift Plan." The defined-benefit plan holds a diversified portfolio of investments; the defined-contribution plan initially limited employees to holding stock of IPALCO Enterprises, Inc., the employer's parent corporation, or bonds issued by ... More...

$0 (01-06-2008 - IN)

<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/fdocs/docs.fwx?submit=showbr&shofile=05-4484_012.pdf" target="_new">James Northcutt and Lewis Smith, et al. v. General Motors Hourly-Rate Employees Pension Plan, et al.</a>

James Northcutt and Lewis Smith brought this action seeking pension plan benefits withheld from them by their employer, General Motors Corporation ("GM"). GM had suspended the payment of these benefits and was treating the amount otherwise due to the plaintiffs each month as reimbursement for past disability and pension plan overpayments. Mr. Northcutt and Mr. Smith claim that § 502 of t... More...

$0 (11-05-2006 - IN)

<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/tmp/SE0EO5UW.pdf" target="_new">Harold Crough v. Whirlpool Corporation</a>

Whirlpool Corporation (Whirlpool) terminated Harold Crouch after determining that he falsely applied for a leave of absence. Crouch sued Whirlpool for various violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA). The district court granted summary judgment for Whirlpool, finding in relevant part that its honest suspicion of Crouch's mi... More...

$0 (04-26-2006 - IN)

<a href="http://www.in.gov/judiciary/opinions/archive/08150002.msm.html" target="_new">Wallace L. Hogle v. Shireley A. Hogle</a>

Wallace Hogle appeals the trial court's entry of a Qualified Domestic Relations Order ("QDRO"). He raises a single issue on appeal, which we restate as whether the trial court properly entered, some twenty years after the parties' marriage was dissolved, a QDRO which transfers to Wallace's former wife, Shirley Hogle, benefits from Wallace's pension plan in order to satisfy a California judgment... More...

$0 (08-15-2000 - IN)

<a href="http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/op3.fwx?submit1=showop&caseno=01-2981" target="_new">Mary Perugini-Christen v. Homestead Mortgage Company and Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company</a>

Mary Perugini-Christen was covered by long-term disability insurance under a group policy provided by Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company. When she became disabled, Perugini filed for benefits under the Reliance plan. Reliance paid benefits to Perugini, but the amount it paid was less than Perugini thought she should receive, and she filed suit. The district court granted summary jud... More...

$0 (04-19-2002 - IN)