Legal Opinion
Ray G. Olander v. Bucyrus-Erie Company
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided July 21, 1999No. 98-1541PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
Ray Olander sued his former employer, Bucyrus-Erie Company (“Bucyrus”) for certain benefits under a supplementary pension benefit plan (the “Supp plan”) which he had drafted for Bucyrus as its chief legal officer. The central issue in the case is whether a number of payments made to Olander in 1988 were properly excluded from the calculation of his benefits under the Supp plan. With respect to all but one of those payments, we affirm.
Olander worked for Bucyrus from 1961 to 1993. After a leveraged buyout of Bu-cyrus in 1988, he became vice chairman, chief…
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