JAMES v. FLEET/NORSTAR FINANCIAL GROUP

No. 741, Docket 92-7946.

992 F.2d 463 (1993)

Diane JAMES, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. FLEET/NORSTAR FINANCIAL GROUP, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided May 4, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry S. Zitser, Hartford, CT (Peter G. Perakos, II, of counsel), for plaintiff-appellant Diane James.

Peter A. Janus, Hartford, CT (Dana Shaw MacKinnon, of counsel), for defendant-appellee Fleet/Norstar Financial Group, Inc.

Before: PRATT, FRIEDMAN, and MAHONEY, Circuit Judges.


FRIEDMAN, Circuit Judge:

The principal question in this appeal is whether an employer's undertaking to give employees sixty days of pay following their last day of work if the employees would remain on the job until an internal consolidation was completed, created an "employee welfare benefit plan" under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et seq. (1988). The district court held that the undertaking created a plan and...

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