Legal Opinion
Hirt v. Equitable Retirement Plan for Employees, Managers & Agents
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 20, 2006No. 01 Civ. 7920(AKH)PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER GRANTING AND DENYING SUMMARY JUDGMENT
HELLERSTEIN, District Judge.
Plaintiffs are long-term employees, managers and agents of The Equitable Life Assurance Society of America (“Equitable”). They filed this lawsuit, for themselves and others similarly situated, to challenge changes by Equitable to its retirement plans. By a series of resolutions and notices, beginning November 1988 and over the next several years, Equitable announced changes in its plans, converting them from defined benefits based on an average of final years of compensation, to annually adjusted cash balance…
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3Cited by19 opinions
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- Drutis v. Rand McNally & Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 2007
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