# John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance v. Health, Welfare & Retirement Trust Funds Board

> Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · June 10, 1960 · 341 Mass. 206

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/6447081

## Case

- **Full name:** John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company & another v. Health, Welfare and Retirement Trust Funds Board
- **Court:** Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
- **Decided:** June 10, 1960
- **Citations:** 341 Mass. 206; 167 N.E.2d 863; 1960 Mass. LEXIS 578
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion of the court by Whittemore
- **Judges:** Whittemore
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

Whittemore, J.
This case is controlled by the opinion of this date in Liberty Mut. Ins. Co. v. Health, Welfare & Retirement Trust Funds Bd., ante, p. 194. The fact that there is on the books of the insurance company an account which is entitled “Pension Administration Fund”, brings the case more nearly within the technical definition of “fund” outlined in the opinion. But we think again that the statute has not adequately shown an intention to regulate plans which do not include the creation of a trust fund in the usual sense.
*207 A decree is to enter in the Superior Court construing the statute as inapplicable to the contract between John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company and Forbes Lithograph Mfg. Co. and plan in connection therewith; also that the regulation is invalid so far as it purports to require compliance with the statute in respect of such contract and plan.
So ordered.

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