Anthony J. Pocchia v. Nynex Corporation and Nynex Service Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employer had no obligation to voluntarily disclose deliberations regarding a plan amendment before it had actually been adopted, and noting burden on fiduciary and likelihood of confusion arising from overly stringent voluntary disclosure requirements
• stating that requirement of voluntary disclosure would unduly burden employers and impair legitimate business goals
• stating that requirement of voluntary disclosure would unduly burden employers and impair legitimate business goals
• adopting a bright-line rule that fiduciaries need not voluntarily disclose changes in a benefit plan until they are adopted
• adopting bright-line rule where employee fails to request information about changes in benefits, finding no duty to disclose changes until new plan goes into effect
• employer had fiduciary duty not to make affirmative misrepresentations or omissions

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).