Legal Opinion
Bell v. Xerox Corp.
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided October 2, 2014No. 13-CV-6586LPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
DECISION AND ORDER
DAVID G. LARIMER, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
Fifteen plaintiffs bring this suit under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1101 et seq. Defendants are Xerox Corporation (“Xerox”), three alleged employee welfare benefit plans, and the administrators of those plans.
The gist of plaintiffs claims is that they chose to participate in an early retirement program offered by Xerox in the 1980s, based in part on a promise that by doing so they would receive certain medical and dental benefits, at an unchanging level for the rest of their lives.…
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