ERISA Preempts Banker's $5.5M Deferred Comp, Judge Rules

By Irene Spezzamonte

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act preempts a former Leerink Partners employee's claims that she was cheated out of about $5.5 million in deferred compensation after the bank hired her under allegedly false pretenses from Goldman Sachs, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Thursday.

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