Case: Pension Benefits/Fiduciary Duties (S.D. W. Va.)

A West Virginia radiologist’s suit claiming more than $127,000 in lost pension benefits survived dueling motions for summary judgment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. Multiple ambiguities in the parties’ agreements and communications surrounding the now-terminated pension plan must be sorted out, the court said. Timothy Conner is moving forward with claims that Associated Radiologists Inc. and certain of its doctors breached their ERISA fiduciary duties and his employment agreement in the course of handling his retirement and the termination of the practice’s pension plan. Also advancing is the practice’s counterclaim against Conner for ...