Legal Opinion
Anthony J. Pocchia v. Nynex Corporation and Nynex Service Company
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided April 9, 1996No. 674, Docket 95-7598PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WALKER, Circuit Judge:
Several months after Plaintiff-Appellant Anthony J. Poechia retired from a career with the NYNEX Corporation, the company announced changes in its retirement plan that would have benefitted Pocchia. Pocchia sued the company claiming that it breached a fiduciary duty owed to him under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”) by not informing him, at the time he was negotiating the terms of his resignation, that it had already decided to implement an early retirement plan. He also argued that even if the company was only considering a new plan when he retired,…
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