Crews v. General American Life Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that contractual obligation to pay severance was independent of ERISA plan, and thus a breach of con- tract claim was not preempted, in light of higher amount to be paid and absence of any discretion
• relying upon “significant differences between the company’s existing plan and the promised benefits, as well as the lack of any evidence linking them to each other”
• where promises made to employees are “simply an attempt to amend [an] existing plan, then it follows that they were based on that plan”
• expounding the eponymous \ Crews factors\
• expounding the eponymous “Crews factors”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).