United States First Circuit

A plan administrator was not acting as a fiduciary in amending a severance plan, and employers have the right to amend or end a welfare benefit plan at any time, thus amendment to a Separation Pay Plan was proper under ERISA, and an elimination of an expected (not accrued) benefit was not a violation.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/07/2003
• Published 03/07/2003

Judges

• LYNCH, Circuit Judge., Before LYNCH, Circuit Judge, FARRIS, Senior Circuit Judge, and LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.

Court

• United States First Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert O. Berger for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert B. Gordon with whom Joseph P. Mingolla and Ropes & Gray were on brief for appellees.