Benefits & ERISA Law

An Unfortunately Timely Topic: When Severance Programs are ERISA Plans

Nothing shows up in my practice any more frequently, particularly in this economy and over the last couple of years, than severance packages, and the question of whether a particular severance package program is governed by ERISA. Roy Hoskins, on the ERISABoard.com site, reviews this issue, and its application by the District of Maine under First Circuit law, in this excellent post, along with providing a copy of the opinion by the court. For those of you who may not be able to access the Board's site for any reason, here is a copy of the decision itself, which is Sawyer v. TD Bank US Holding Company.

Full post as published by Boston ERISA Law Blog on August 09, 2010 (boomark / email).