Legal Opinion
Esden v. Bank of Boston
District Court, D. Vermont
Decided April 1, 1998No. 2:97-cv-00114PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
SESSIONS, District Judge.
On April 3,1997, Lynn Esden filed a class action complaint, alleging that “Bank of Boston and The Retirement Plan of The First National Bank of Boston and certain affiliated companies” violated the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (“ERISA”), section 203(e)(2), 29 U.S.C. § 1053(e)(2), by miscalculating the benefits due to plan participants who elected to receive accrued benefits in a lump sum. Esden contends specifically that participants received less than the present value of their normal retirement benefit, as required by…
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