Eighth Circuit -- Dakota, MN & Eastern R.R. v. Kevin Schieffer

Dakota, MN & Eastern R.R. v. Kevin Schieffer

(W)e conclude that an individual contract providing severance benefits to a single executive employee is not an ERISA employee welfare benefit plan within the meaning of 29 U.S.C. § 1002(1)

Remanded for consideration of whether payments at time of severance functioned as ERISA payments and therefore give jurisdiction under "relating to" jurisdictional grant of statute.