Excerpt: I've complained at times in the past that too many federal Circuit and District courts view ERISA's equitable remedies as a one way street. Plan fiduciaries chasing subrogation or overpayment claims have free rein to recover money from plan participants under the guise of 'appropriate equitable relief.' Yet those some courts often deny the participants any monetary recovery for violations of ERISA because recovery of money supposedly falls outside the scope of 'appropriate equitable relief.'

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