Hohenegger v. Northern Indiana Public Service Co.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that “the Seventh Circuit has touched on ... the ‘critical acts’ concept, but not thoroughly enough to provide an easy answer here”
• stating that it would be unfair to use an ERISA ban on oral modifications to contracts to nullify an alleged modification.created roughly a decade before ERISA was passed
• holding, in a fact-specific analysis, that employer’s oral promise to modify pre-ERISA retirement plan enticed plaintiff to accept a job with employer and was a “critical act” that took case out of ERISA’s coverage

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