Retiree health benefits-vesting of welfare benefits-early retirement-duty to bargain-termination of benefits-estoppel.
Poore v. Simpson Paper Co., 2009 U.S. App. LEXIS 11170 (9th Cir. Or. May 21, 2009). To be able to sue under ERISA, retirement health plan participants need not show that their benefits are vested the same way pension benefits are vested; the rights to the benefits need not be fixed or unalterable, rather, the employee must have an entitlement to the benefits.
D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D006801:Humans; D016134:Organizational Policy; D012179:Retirement / Q000191:economics*