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Category: Executive Compensation
14 Jul 2019
Your ERISA Watch – Sixth Circuit Finds that Deferred Compensation Plan for Executive Employees is an Employee Pension Benefit Plan
This week’s notable decision is Wilson v. Safelite Grp., Inc., No. 18-3408, __F.3d__, 2019 WL 3000995 (6th Cir. July 10, 2019), where the Sixth Circuit answers the question of what constitutes an employee pension benefit plan under ERISA. At issue…
23 Jul 2018
Your ERISA Watch – D.C. Circuit Holds That Participant Is Entitled to Deferred Compensation Benefits Despite Termination for Refusing to Transfer Positions
This week’s notable decision is Peck v. SELEX Sys. Integration, Inc., No. 17-7138, __F.3d__, 2018 WL 3431740 (D.C. Cir. July 17, 2018). Plaintiff Ronald Peck was a participant in Defendant SELEX Systems Integration’s “top-hat” ERISA-governed deferred compensation plan. After working…
27 Nov 2017
ERISA Watch – Third Circuit Holds that Plan Participant Bargaining Power Is Not a Substantive Element of a Top-Hat Plan
This week’s notable decision is Sikora v. UPMC, No. 17-1288, __F.3d__, 2017 WL 5642407 (3d Cir. Nov. 24, 2017), where the Third Circuit joined the First Circuit, and departed from the Second, Sixth, and Ninth Circuits, in determining that plan…
13 Nov 2017
ERISA Watch – Fourth Circuit Rules that Top-Hat Plan Can Change Crediting Rate Used to Calculate a Participant’s Payout
This week’s notable decision, Plotnick v. Computer Scis. Corp. Deferred Comp. Plan for Key Executives, No. 16-1606, __F.3d__, 2017 WL 5162581 (4th Cir. Nov. 8, 2017), required the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to determine whether a “top-hat” plan had…
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