IN RE DeROGATIS

Docket No. 16-977-cv, Docket No. 16-3549-cv August Term, 2017.

904 F.3d 174 (2018)

IN RE: Emily DeROGATIS. Emily DeRogatis, Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Board of Trustees of the Welfare Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15, 15A, 15C & 15D, AFLCIO; Trustee James T. Callahan; Trustee Thomas A. Callahan; Trustee Francis Dimenna; Trustee John Brunetti, Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees. Emily DeRogatis, Plaintiff-Consolidated-Counter-Defendant-Appellant, v. Board of Trustees of the Central Pension Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers and Participating Employers, Plan Administrator; Michael R. Murphy, Trustee; Terrence E. McGowan, Trustee; Brian E. Hickey, Trustee; John Duffy, Trustee; Robert P. McCormick; Noel C. Borck, Trustee; Paul O. Gehl, Trustee; J. Patrick Tielborg, Trustee; Paul C. Bensi, Trustee, Defendants-Appellees, James T. Callahan, Trustee, Defendant-Consolidated Defendant-Consolidated-Counter-Claimant-Appellee, Trustee Francis Dimenna; John Brunetti; Trustee Thomas A. Callahan; Board of Trustees of the Welfare Fund of the International Union of Operating Engineers Local 15, 15A,15C &15D, AFL-CIO, Consolidated-Defendants-Consolidated-Counter-Claimants.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: September 14, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ROBERT L. LIEBROSS , Law Office of Robert L. Liebross, New York, NY ( Edgar Pauk , Law Office of Edgar Pauk, Brooklyn, NY, on the brief), for Emily DeRogatis.

JAMES M. STEINBERG ( Joseph H. Green , on the brief), Brady McGuire & Steinberg P.C., Tarrytown, NY for Defendants-Counter-Claimants-Appellees in Docket No. 16-977.

LISA M. GOMEZ ( David R. Hock , Michael S. Adler , on the brief), Cohen, Weiss and Simon LLP, New York, NY, for Defendants-Appellees and James T. Callahan, Trustee, in Docket No. 16-3549.

Before: Lynch, Carney, Circuit Judges, and Vitaliano, District Judge.


Plaintiff Emily DeRogatis's husband, Frank DeRogatis, a long-time operator of heavy machinery on construction sites and a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers "Local 15" in New York City, succumbed to lung cancer in September 2011 at the age of 61. These tandem cases, in which his widow Emily asserts...

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