ANOKA ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATES, P.A. v. LECHNER

Nos. 89-5200, 89-5224.

910 F.2d 514 (1990)

ANOKA ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATES, P.A.; Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A., Employees' Defined Benefit Pension Plan and Trust; Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A., Employees' Profit Sharing Plan and Trust; Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A., Employees' Money Purchase Pension Plan and Trust; Dr. Charles J. Cooley; Dr. Jon E. Wallestad; and Dr. Phillip H. Haley, Appellants, v. Edward J. LECHNER; E.J. Lechner, J.D. Ltd.; John G. Mutschler & Associates, Inc.; and John G. Mutschler, Appellees. Edward J. LECHNER and E.J. Lechner, J.D. Ltd., v. Dr. Charles J. COOLEY; Dr. Jon E. Wallestad; Dr. Phillip H. Haley; Mr. Ronald E. Flo and Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A. Continental Insurance Company and Fidelity Casualty Company of New York, Intervenors-Defendants Below. ANOKA ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATES, P.A.; Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A., Employees' Defined Benefit Pension Plan and Trust; Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A., Employees' Profit Sharing Plan and Trust; Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A., Employees' Money Purchase Pension Plan and Trust; Dr. Charles J. Cooley; Dr. Jon E. Wallestad; and Dr. Phillip H. Haley, v. Edward J. LECHNER; E.J. Lechner, J.D. Ltd.; John G. Mutschler & Associates, Inc.; and John G. Mutschler, Appellees, v. CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY and Fidelity Casualty Company of New York, Intervenors, Appellants. Edward J. LECHNER and E.J. Lechner, J.D. Ltd. v. Dr. Charles J. COOLEY; Dr. Jon E. Wallestad; Dr. Phillip H. Haley; Mr. Ronald E. Flo and Anoka Orthopaedic Associates, P.A.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided August 6, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James P. Mulvahill, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellants.

Kay Nord Hunt, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee Lechner.

Robert F. Henson, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee Mutschler.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge, BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge, and FAGG, Circuit Judge.


BRIGHT, Senior Circuit Judge.

In this action to recover damages based on an alleged breach of fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (1988), and based also on pendent state-law claims, the plaintiffs/appellants, a medical services group, its two employee benefit plans, and three employees who serve as trustees of the plans, appeal from the district court's1 grant of...

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