3rd Circuit Summarily Affirms: Plaintiff Lacks Standing Under ERISA

Mealey's (February 16, 2016, 9:25 AM EST) -- PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania federal judge properly found that a plaintiff’s claim for pension benefits accrued by his late father is governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and that the plaintiff lacks standing to maintain such an action, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 11 in a not precedential decision (Thomas E. Robinson Jr. v. Laneko Engineering Co. Inc., No. 15-2837, 3rd Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 2359)....