METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. v. BIGELOW

Docket No. 01-7474.

283 F.3d 436 (2002)

METROPOLITAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and General Electric Company, Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees, v. Tracy BIGELOW and Sherri Bigelow Gallup, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees, Michael J. Bigelow, Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided March 7, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chaim Jaffe, Scolaro, Shulman, Cohen, Lawler & Burstein, P.C., Syracuse, NY, for Defendant-Cross-Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant, Michael J. Bigelow.

Robert J. Krzys, Amsterdam, NY, for Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Cross-Claimants-Appellees, Tracy Bigelow and Sherri Bigelow Gallup.

Before: POOLER, SOTOMAYOR, and B.D. PARKER, Circuit Judges.


B.D. PARKER, JR., Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs Metropolitan Life Insurance Company ("MetLife") and General Electric Company ("GE") brought an interpleader action against defendants Michael J. Bigelow, Tracy Bigelow, and Sherri Bigelow Gallup to determine the proper beneficiary of two employee benefits plans governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. ("ERISA"). The District Court (Frederick J. Scullin, Jr...

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