BONOVICH v. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS

Civil No. 3:93cv2077 (JBA).

963 F.Supp. 143 (1997)

Earl BONOVICH, John Porter, Dean Robertson, Mario Marino, Ernie Shelton, Anthony Lenore, and Thomas Currier, individually, and on behalf of all others similarly situated, Plaintiffs, v. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS, and Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus, including Virgil Dechant, Knights of Columbus Agents' Pension Plan, and Plan Administrators, including W. Patrick, Donlin, and the Union Trust Company, Trustee, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

March 21, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Paul Spinella, David K. Jaffe, Spinella & Jaffe, Hartford, CT, Gina Fietsam, Robert A. Holstein, Jewel N. Klein, Aron D. Robinson, Holstein, Mack & Klein, Chicago, IL, for Earl Bonovich.

Gina Fietsam, Holstein, Mack & Klein, Chicago, IL, for John Gilmour Porter, Dean Robertson, Mario Marino, Ernie Shelton, Anthony Lenore.

Gina Fietsam, Holstein, Mack & Klein, Chicago, IL, for Thomas Currier.

John F. Conway, Penny Q. Seaman, Mark Richard Kravitz, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, CT, Phillip J. Harvey, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, DC, for Knights of Columbus, Virgil Dechant, W. Patrick Donlin, Knights of Columbus Agents Pension Plan, Plan Administrators.

David R. Schaefer, Brian P. Daniels, Brenner, Saltzman & Wallman, New Haven, John F. Conway, Penny Q. Seaman, Mark Richard Kravitz, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, Philip J. Harvey, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge, Washington, DC, Anthony J. Oliva, Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory, Los Angeles, CA, for Union Trust Co.

John F. Conway, Penny Q. Seaman, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, CT, for Ellis Flinn, Charles Riesbeck, Jr.

John F. Conway, Wiggin & Dana, New Haven, CT, for William J. Van Tassell, Edward J. Maloney.


RULING ON DEFENDANTS' MOTION TO DISMISS [DOC. 41]

I. INTRODUCTION

ARTERTON, District Judge.

Knights of Columbus "field agents" received annual commission renewals if the insurance policies they sold were renewed through the first five years of the life of the policy, regardless of whether the agent was still working for the Knights, or whether the agent was alive or deceased, provided the renewals themselves had vested. (Am. Compl. ¶ 61)....

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