Legal Opinion
Coffin v. Bowater Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 7, 2007No. 06-1964, 06-2101PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case concerns the continuing liability of Bowater, Inc. for the health benefits of some of the retired workers of its subsidiary, Great Northern Paper, Inc. (“GNP”), after Bowater sold GNP to Inex-con in 1999. Bowater claims that its responsibility for these benefits terminated either at the time of GNP’s sale or in 2003, when Bowater consolidated its benefit plans under an umbrella plan whose coverage did not extend to GNP retirees. A putative class of GNP retirees, whose claims for benefits Bowater denied, assert that neither the 1999 sale nor the 2003 plan…
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