Questão jurídica principal
Whether the pension-plan death benefit must be credited against the contractual life-insurance claim
Decisão extraída
The pension-plan death benefit was not to be credited because the contractual life-insurance promise under clause 6.2 was distinct and the lower court could reasonably rely on the different financing structure.
Fundamentação extraída
The contract was open to two plausible readings. The Supreme Court deferred to the lower court's normative contract supplementation and upheld the view that only employer-financed benefits count toward clause 6.2, not parity-financed pension benefits.