breach its fiduciary duty under federal benefits laws by failing to remove a female employee's ex-husband as a beneficiary to her retirement plan, holding the company correctly followed plan documents in distributing the funds. A three-judge panel of the circuit court in a published opinion ruled a Minnesota federal court correctly granted summary judgment to Honeywell on Employee Retirement Income Security Act claims brought by Robert Francis Gelschus, the brother and personal representative of the estate of now-deceased ex-worker Sally Aileen Hogen. Still, the panel reversed the. . .

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