Frank Lumpkin v. Envirodyne Industries, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the anti-alienation provision of ERISA manifests Congress's intent to prevent a worker from unknowingly signing away pension benefits, but does not impose a bar on settlement agreements in which benefits are knowingly and voluntarily waived
• stating that there should be disregard of the corporate entity if “potential fraud [would be] nullified”
• noting that interpretation is a question of fact under Illinois law only where “the parties dispute the extrinsic evidence on an ambiguous contract.”
• holding anti-alienation provisions do not preclude waiver of benefits in settlement agreement
• discussing several ERISA cases in which courts disregarded the corporate form
• “the alter ego doctrine can be invoked to impose liability on a parent even when the plaintiff settles with the subsidiary”

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