JOHNSON v. WATTS REGULATOR CO.

No. 95-1002.

63 F.3d 1129 (1995)

James JOHNSON, Plaintiff, Appellee, v. WATTS REGULATOR COMPANY, et al., Defendants, Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided August 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eleanor H. MacLellan, with whom Sean M. Dunne, Ross M. Weisman, and Sulloway & Hollis were on brief, Concord, NH, for appellants.

Christopher J. Seufert, with whom Seufert Professional Association was on brief, Franklin, NH, for appellee.

Before SELYA, Circuit Judge, CAMPBELL, Senior Circuit Judge, and CYR, Circuit Judge.


SELYA, Circuit Judge.

This appeal requires us to address, for the first time, a "safe harbor" regulation promulgated by the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) as a means of exempting certain group insurance programs from the strictures of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461. Determining, as we do, that the district court appropriately applied the regulation, and discerning...

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