Legal Opinion
Bell v. Pfizer Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 1, 2007No. 03 Civ. 9945(KMW)PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
KIMBA M. WOOD, District Judge.
By the end of her twenty-three-year career at Pfizer, Inc. (“Pfizer”), Plaintiff Diana Bell had amassed several million dollars’ worth of stock options. She terminated her service with Pfizer on June 1, 2003, at age 51, believing that she had taken early retirement and had retained her stock options. Soon thereafter, Pfizer notified her that because she had not attained the early retirement age of 55, she had not retired (but had instead resigned), and she was required to forfeit some options and exercise others immediately.
Bell alleges that the…
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