Legal Opinion
Gilbert J. Librizzi v. The Children's Memorial Medical Center
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 6, 1998No. 97-1934PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.
After Gilbert Librizzi, vice president for facilities design and construction of the Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Chicago, suffered a stroke, he elected early retirement at age 59 under his employer’s pension benefit plan. Within a year he concluded that this had been a mistake — that he would be better off with disability benefits until 65 and a full pension thereafter. He asked the Medical Center to make this adjustment, but it refused, for elections under the plan are conclusive in light of the relation between age and risk of mortality. For example, the…
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