Bankruptcy court appropriately limited employee's claim for bonuses due, as although the triggering event for the bonus had been achieved, under normal conditions, employment would have had to continue for five years beyond the event, and present obligations to the employee were only accelerated by the filing of the petition, making the acceleration of the claim the true triggering event.
Since 2011. An occasional commonplacing of the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal.
Neither an authoritative statement of the law nor legal advice. Quick work.