Bernard McLaughlin v. National Elevator Industry Health Benefit Plan Board of Trustees
1. After Third Circuit had affirmed an Order in favor of an ERISA plan by recharacterizing it as a monetizing of a lien rather than a personal money judgment, did the Court err by not correcting the ERISA Plan's misuse of that Order when the Plan docketed it under a state law available only for money judgments, contrary to ERISA's prohibition on relief at law.
2. Did the Third Circuit err by not permitting the Participant discovery on whether the Plan's withholding of benefits as a set-off had reached the point whether his indebtedness to the Plan had been satisfied.
Whether the Third Circuit erred in affirming the ERISA plan's misuse of a court order to docket it under state law for money judgments, contrary to ERISA's prohibition on relief at law