Legal Opinion
Laurent v. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 23, 2015No. Docket 14-1179PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GERARD E. LYNCH, Circuit Judge:
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), as amended 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq., protects retirement benefits that have accrued over the course of an employee’s tenure until that employee reaches normal retirement age. The question in this case is how much leeway retirement plan sponsors have to define what “normal retirement age” is, in order to avoid paying future interest credits when the employee leaves employment and elects to receive the value of his or her retirement account in a lump-sum distribution. Plaintiffs, former employees of…
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