Richard P. Helwig v. Kelsey-Hayes Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that it is reasonable for beneficiaries to believe that benefits would remain unchanged absent a cancellation provision in the summary plan description
• explaining that the critical consideration “is the language actually given to the employees and upon which they could reasonably have relied”
• noting that employees do not have to prove detrimental reliance in order to take advantage of the language in the SPD if they “could reasonably have relied” on the SPD
• “Until benefits have vested, employers may modify them or terminate them, whether or not they have reserved the right to do so”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).