Central States, Southeast & Southwest Areas Health & Welfare Fund v. Gerber Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee benefit plan could not seek reimbursement for covered individuals' medical expenses from an insurance company's general assets
• holding that no equitable lien by agreement existed where a fiduciary did not identify a particular fund, distinct from plaintiff’s general assets, nor a particular share of that fund to which it was entitled
• finding that, although styled as “disgorgement,” legal claims were at issue where the plaintiff was seeking fungible dollars out of the defendants’ general funds
• finding that, although styled as “disgorgement,” legal claims were at issue where the plaintiff was seeking fungible dollars out of the defendants’ general funds
• dismissing plaintiffs’ claims for past and future beneficiary expenses under Section 502(a)(3
• Litigants cannot ʺplead around ERISAʹs limitationsʺ and bring ʺlegal [claims] for money damages even though they are covered by an equitable label.ʺ

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).