Aquin v. Bendix Corp.

OPINION

COHN, District Judge.

I

A

This is an action to determine whether a decision by a welfare benefit plan administrator to deny severance benefits was “arbitrary and capricious.” Plaintiffs are two groups of former Bendix Corporation (Bendix) employees. The initial plaintiffs are forty-one (fifty-eight, after the first amended complaint) former salaried employees of Bendix Machine Tool Corporation (BMTC), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bendix. They are joined in the first amended complaint by a group of sixty-three former salaried employees of Bendix’s Industrial Controls Division (ICD). Both…