Plaintiff Ramona Contreras filed this lawsuit under § 502(a)(1)(B) of the Employee Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B), to recover long-term disability (“LTD”) benefits under a plan that her former employer, Flexible Steel Lacing Company (“Flexco”), established through Defendant United of Omaha Life Insurance Company.
Before the Court are the parties’ cross-motions for summary judgment pursuant to Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 56(a). (R. 62, R. 66.) Plaintiff Jodi Suson seeks a declaratory judgment that Defendant THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC. (“PNC”) arbitrarily and capriciously denied her request for long-term disability benefits under THE PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC.…
Plaintiffs Alan Carlson and Peter DeLuca claim that when they were terminated from their long-time employment with Northrop Grumman Technical Services, Inc., they were denied severance benefits that they should have received in accordance with the Northrop Grumman Severance Plan (“Plan”). Plaintiffs allege that they were denied severance benefits due to their employer’s desire to…

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