Pens. Plan Guide P 23921b Gleniss S. Schonholz v. Long Island Jewish Medical Center

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a severance benefits plan was subject to ERISA when it required the employer to determine whether the employee (1) had been terminated involuntarily, (2) had been terminated for either illegal con- duct or substantially deficient performance, (3
• stating that a reneged-upon promise that induced an employee’s resignation constitutes extraordinary circumstances
• \Nothing in ERISA ... forbids or prevents an employer from agreeing to vest employee welfare benefits or from waiving its ability to terminate or amend unilaterally a plan ....\
• applying the common law of contracts in assessing a promissory estoppel claim under ERISA
• “Nothing in ERISA ... forbids or prevents an employer from agreeing to vest employee welfare benefits or from waiving its ability to terminate or amend unilaterally a plan .... ”
• preempting state law where eligibility turned in part on “whether the employee was making a reasonable and good faith effort to obtain suitable employment elsewhere”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).