Rich McHugh, editor of our sister blog – Employee Benefits Law Report – published a blog earlier today on a recent en banc decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that may be of interest to our readers. On March 5, 2015, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an en banc decision in Rochow v. Life Insurance Company of North America that deals with the ability of a participant in a plan covered by ERISA to recover benefits due from that plan while simultaneously pursuing “other appropriate equitable relief” based on that same asserted injury. In a decision likely to be applauded by many plan sponsors, the court’s en banc decision concluded that both forms of recovery are inappropriate when based on the same injury except in limited circumstances—circumstances that were not satisfied in this case. I would encourage you to read Rich’s post.