Panel:  Lien On Personal IRA In ERISA Case Not Improper

Mealey's (November 15, 2019, 2:47 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a Nov. 13 unpublished decision, a panel of the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals left intact a California federal judge’s decision that placed a lien on the personal individual retirement account (IRA) of an appellant accused of breaching her fiduciary duty to her brother’s Living Trust (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Araceli Maloney, Nos. 18-55785, 18-55989 and 18-56174, 9th Cir., 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 33857)....