Legal Opinion
Stanley A. Rodowicz v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Stanley A. Rodowicz v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 3, 1999No. 98-1654, 98-1690PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge.
Plaintiffs each retired from defendant Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (“MassMutual” or “the Company”) under terms that were less favorable than those in a special offer made to employees soon after.- They filed suit against MassMutual and the Massachusetts Mutual Voluntary Termination Program (“VTP”) 1 , alleging that by failing to reveal that a more favorable retirement option was forthcoming, MassMutual violated its fiduciary duties under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) (codified at 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq.).…
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