No. 19-444

Robert Hoch v. MBI Energy Services

Lower Court: Eighth Circuit
Docketed: 2019-10-04
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: beneficiary beneficiary-rights cigna-corp-v-amara erisa erisa-beneficiary erisa-plan erisa-plan-administrator-reimbursement erisa-plan-document plan-administrator plan-document reimbursement reimbursement-provisions summary-plan-description
Key Terms:
Arbitration ERISA
Latest Conference: 2019-11-15
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether an ERISA Plan Administrator may enforce reimbursement provisions against an ERISA beneficiary that are contained only in a Summary Plan Description and where no ERISA Plan document containing the reimbursement provisions exists

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTION PRESENTED Whether an ERISA Plan Administrator may enforce reimbursement provisions against an ERISA beneficiary that are contained only ina Summary Plan Description and where no ERISA Plan document containing the reimbursement provisions exists, in contravention of this Court’s holding in Cigna Corp. v. Amara, 563 U.S. 421 (2011), that enforceable terms within ERISA must be contained in the Plan document and cannot be contained only in a Summary Plan Description. ii PARTIES TO THE CASE Robert Hoch, Petitioner, was the DefendantAppellant below. MBI Energy Services, Inc., Respondent, was the Plaintiff-Appellee below. STATEMENT OF

Docket Entries

2019-11-18
Petition DENIED.
2019-10-30
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 11/15/2019.
2019-10-22
Waiver of right of respondent MBI Energy Services to respond filed.
2019-10-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due November 4, 2019)

Attorneys

MBI Energy Services
John Gordon HowardRussell, Oliver & Stephens, PLC, Respondent
John Gordon HowardRussell, Oliver & Stephens, PLC, Respondent
Robert Hoch
Robert L PratterCohen, Placitella and Roth, Petitioner
Robert L PratterCohen, Placitella and Roth, Petitioner