Section 8-318 - Discharging, fining, suspending, expelling, disciplining, or discriminating against plan participant or beneficiary(a) 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) 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) 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.