Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc.

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• holding that the defendant is in the best position to prove and should bear the burden of establishing its entitlement to an exemption under 29 U.S.C. §1108 from 29 U.S.C. §1106(b), ERISA's prohibited transactions provision
• recognizing basis for recovery against non-fiduciaries under both trust law and section 502(a)(3)’s remedial provisions
• holding individuals responsible for fiduciary's ERISA violations on evidence of \extensive intermixing of assets . . . among the corporations and individual defendants\
• allowing veil piercing because subsidiary's capital was \wholly inadequate\ and owners looted subsidiary
• allowing veil piercing because subsidiary’s capital was “wholly inadequate” and owners looted subsidiary
• in suit brought by trustees of benefit plan, related corporation and shareholders could not \use shell-game-like maneuvers to shift fiduciary obligations to one legal entity while channeling profits from self-dealing to a separate legal entity under their control.\

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Cited by

67 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Grindstaff v. Green
  Sixth Circuit· 1998-01-08· cited 227×
• Unnamed case
  First Circuit· 1992-03-30· cited 222×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1996-02-06· cited 204×
• Earl Lee and David Abramson v. Richard Burkhart and Patrick Sullivan, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company
  Second Circuit· 1993-04-19· cited 202×
• Al Nieto, Clarence Valdez, Adrian Munenmann, Lester Olivera and Joana L. Gonzales v. Louis Ecker, and Roger Frommer
  Ninth Circuit· 1988-05-02· cited 140×
• Unnamed case
  Third Circuit· 1995-09-08· cited 109×
• Useden v. Acker
  Eleventh Circuit· 1991-12-11· cited 62×
• Cynthia Herdrich v. Lori Pegram, M.D., Carle Clinic Association, and Health Alliance Medical Plans, Incorporated
  Seventh Circuit· 1998-08-18· cited 61×
• Waller v. Blue Cross of California
  Ninth Circuit· 1994-07-05· cited 55×
• Liss v. Smith
  S.D. New York· 1998-01-13· cited 52×
• Whitfield v. Lindemann
  Fifth Circuit· 1988-09-09· cited 50×
• Uselton v. Commercial Lovelace Motor Freight, Inc.
  Tenth Circuit· 1991-07-12· cited 48×
• Beck v. Levering
  Second Circuit· 1991-10-22· cited 40×
• Greenblatt v. Prescription Plan Services Corp.
  S.D. New York· 1992-03-23· cited 37×
• Chittenden Trust Co. v. Sebert Lumber, Co. (In Re Vermont Toy Works, Inc.)
  D. Vermont· 1987-12-23· cited 37×
• Illinois Bell Telephone Co. v. Global NAPs Illinois, Inc.
  Seventh Circuit· 2008-12-22· cited 35×
• Leddy v. Standard Drywall, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1989-05-16· cited 34×
• Gruby v. Brady
  S.D. New York· 1999-01-25· cited 34×
• Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1987-09-17· cited 33×
• Cruz v. Robert Abbey, Inc.
  E.D. New York· 1991-06-15· cited 27×

Other cases named Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc.

2 other CourtListener records share this case name.

• Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc.
  Second Circuit· 1987-09-17· cited 33×
• Lowen v. Tower Asset Management, Inc.
  S.D. New York· 1987-02-25· cited 19×