District Court, S.D. New York March 8, 2000, 99 CIV. 4059(SAS) (Dunnigan v. Metropolitan Life Insurance)

OPINION AND ORDER

SCHEINDLIN, District Judge.

This uncertified class action raises a narrow but important issue that remains unsettled in the Second Circuit, namely whether a plan beneficiary may maintain an action under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., solely to recover interest on plan benefits that were paid after a period of delay.