Hansen v. White Motor Corp.

WELLFORD, Circuit Judge.

This case raises serious questions concerning the attempted termination of certain insurance benefits under a welfare benefit plan for retired employees by an employer.in the process of reorganization in bankruptcy. The benefits in question were not the subject of any collective bargaining agreement. There is involved in this controversy the application of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461, and the interpretation of an “assumption and assignment” agreement by a third party involved in the controversy but…