Metaxas

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 POPPI METAXAS, Case No. 20-cv-01184-EMC

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND

v. DENYING IN PART THE PARTIES’

CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY

GATEWAY BANK F.S.B., et al., JUDGMENT Defendants. Docket Nos. 74, 77,

12 13 This is an action for supplemental retirement benefits pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a). Plaintiff Poppi Metaxas filed this case against her former employer Defendant Gateway Bank, F.S.B. (“Gateway”) and the Gateway Bank Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (“the Plan”). She alleges that she worked as the President and CEO of Gateway Bank and that she became “totally disabled under the terms of the plan” due to “prolonged sickness” and other “acute and chronic medical problems.” Docket No. 1 (“Compl.”) ¶¶ 7-10. She filed a claim for disability and termination benefits on March 23, 2013, which Defendants denied on February 25, 2016. …