Walther v. Pension Plan for Salaried Employees of the Dayton-Walther Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that commonality is satisfied by an allegation that the members of the class have all been affected by a “general policy” which is “the focus of the litigation”
• finding commonality not satisfied “[i]n the absence of at least one common written document distributed to all members of the class”
• “[A]n employer’s decision to provide a less favorable plan of benefits and related decisions regarding plan design fall into the category of settlor acts and are not subject to review under the fiduciary standards of ERISA.”
• “[T]he insurance policies themselves are the written instruments required by law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).