Pens. Plan Guide P 23912p James Johnson v. Watts Regulator Company

How courts have described this case

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

• advocating that courts should judge the question of whether an employer “established or maintained” a benefit plan within the scope of ERISA “from the employees’ place of vantage”
• describing that where the employer offends the ideal of employer neutrality, as a result of its level of involvement, ERISA is properly invoked
• describing that where the employer “offends the ideal of employer neutrality,” as a result of its level of involvement, ERISA is properly invoked
• noting that none of the plan documents mentioned ERISA in finding that the employer did not endorse the plan
• finding no endorsement where the employer's communication to employees stated the decision was \entirely an individual one\
• noting \the safe harbor may be accessible\ where \it reasonably clear that the program is a third party's offering\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).