Case: Health Care & Benefits/Benefits Denial (N.D. Ill.)

A federal district court in Illinois granted in part and denied in part a Lutheran Life Ministries employee’s motion for reconsideration of her ERISA action challenging her employer’s denial of severance payments and other compensation, based on the circumstances of her departure. The court declined to reconsider its rulings on LLM’s previous motions to dismiss and denied the employee’s requests to amend the complaint regarding the state law breach of contract claim, the state law promissory estoppel claim as it relates to the severance agreement, and the ERISA promissory estoppel claim. And the court granted the employee’s motion to amend ...