NGS American, Inc. v. Jefferson

OPINION

BOGGS, Circuit Judge.

NGS American, Inc., (“NGS”) is a Michigan-based, third-party administrator of the Flint Ink Corporation Employees Group Medical Benefit Plan (“the Plan”) in Florida. Mickey Jefferson’s wife Bernetta received services as a beneficiary under ‘the Plan. She died in the hospital two weeks after giving birth to the Jeffersons’ son, of a condition that Mickey Jefferson claims was readily detectable and treatable. On November 19, 1997, Jefferson served NGS and the health care providers who he claims were responsible for his wife’s death with a pre-suit Notice of Intent to…