Vickie L. Postma v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation, Cross-Appellee

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that because parts of a group benefits plan offered to employees were funded by the employer, the various aspects “ought not be unbundled” for purposes of ERISA
• stating that at least some minimal, ongoing administrative scheme or practice by an employer, takes a policy out of the Safe Harbor Provision
• finding ERISA coverage where “[m]any aspects of that plan were financed in whole or in part” by the employer
• considering an employer’s performance of administrative functions associated with the maintenance of a benefits plan as a factor in favor of ERISA coverage
• “An employer establishes or maintains a plan if it enters a contract with the insurer and pays its employees’ 11 premiums.”
• “For purposes of determining whether a benefit plan is subject to ERISA, its various aspects ought not be unbundled.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).