§ 8-318. Discharging, fining, suspending, expelling, disciplining, or discriminating against plan participant or beneficiary

   (a) In general. -- A person may not discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a plan participant or beneficiary:

   (1) for exercising a right to which the participant or beneficiary is entitled under this subtitle; or

   (2) for the purpose of interfering with a right to which the participant or beneficiary may become entitled under this subtitle.

(b) Involvement in inquiry or proceedings. -- A person may not discharge, fine, suspend, expel, discipline, or discriminate against a person, whether or not the person is a plan participant or beneficiary, because the person:

   (1) has given information or testified in an inquiry or proceeding that relates to this subtitle; or

   (2) is about to give information or testify in an inquiry or proceeding that relates to this subtitle.

(c) Interference with or prevention of exercise of rights. -- A person may not, by fraud, force, violence, or the threat of force or violence, restrain, coerce, or intimidate or attempt to restrain, coerce, or intimidate a plan participant or beneficiary for the purpose of interfering with or preventing the exercise of a right to which the plan participant or beneficiary is or may become entitled under this subtitle.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 48A, § 691; 1995, ch. 36.