GILLIKEN v. HUGHES

Civ. A. No. 85-85-JLL.

609 F.Supp. 178 (1985)

Eleanor GILLIKEN, on her own behalf and as executrix of the estate of Ellis G. Gilliken, Plaintiff, v. William G. HUGHES, Administrator of the Marine Division Pension Plan of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 25, Marine Division, and the Joint Board of Trustees of the International Union of Operating Engineers, Local 25, Marine Division Pension Plan, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Delaware.

May 10, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur Inden, and Barry M. Willoughby, of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

David H. Williams, and Barbara D. Crowell, of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, Del., and Harriet E. Cooperman, of Kaplan, Heyman, Greenberg, Engelman & Belgrad, Baltimore, Md., of counsel, for defendants.


LATCHUM, Senior District Judge.

The plaintiff has brought this suit under section 502 of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA" or "the Act"), 29 U.S.C. § 1132, seeking benefits allegedly accrued by her late husband during his years as an employee of various parties to a collective bargaining agreement that apparently provided an employee benefit plan for members of the union in which the plaintiff claims her husband held membership. (

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