Clay K. James v. Pirelli Armstrong Tire Corporation

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the‘employer breached its fiduciary duties when its human resources representative and plant manager made material misrepresentations to employees concerning their retirement benefits
• concluding that employer breached its fiduciary duties when its human resources representative and plant manager made material misrepresentations to employees concerning their retirement benefits
• stating that “a breach of fiduciary duty occurs when the . . . plan administrator on its own initiative provides misleading information about the future benefits of a plan.”
• whether ERISA fiduciary’s misrepresentation was material is a mixed question of law and fact
• “[W]ith respect to the situation presented when an employer on its own initiative disseminates false and misleading information about a benefit plan, the position of the Sixth Circuit is aligned with that of the Third Circuit in Unisys.”
• “Thus, with respect to the situation presented when an employer on its own initiative disseminates false and misleading information about a benefit plan, the position of the Sixth Circuit is aligned with that of the Third Circuit in Unisys.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).