Burclaw, Saramarie v. Standard Insurance Company

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WISCONSIN SARAMARIE LATONA BURCLAW, Plaintiff, OPINION AND ORDER v. 18-cv-855-wmc STANDARD INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant. At bottom, this lawsuit concerns plaintiff Saramarie Latona Burclaw’s claim that defendant Standard Insurance Company (“Standard”) wrongfully denied her an additional life insurance benefit of $100,000 following the death of her husband, but largely turns on whether the insurance policy at issue is exclusively governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. § 1001, et seq. Plaintiff…