Schlosser v. Allis-Chalmers Corp.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory summary judgment adjudging the defendant Allis-Chalmers Corporation liable to the plaintiffs, a class of retired, salaried, nonunion employees, for breach of a contractual obligation to provide noncontributory (free) life insurance benefits to class members over age sixty-five. We conclude that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in allowing the action to proceed on behalf of the plaintiff class and that it properly granted the plaintiffs an interlocutory summary judgment as to liability.

In 1930 Allis-Chalmers made group life insurance…