Legal Opinion
Walid Jammal v. Am. Family Ins. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided January 29, 2019No. 17-4125PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOGGS, Circuit Judge.
In this class action, the named plaintiffs represent several thousand current and former insurance agents for American Family Insurance Company and its affiliates (collectively, "American Family" or "the company"). The agents claim that American Family misclassified them as independent contractors, while treating them as employees, in order to avoid paying them benefits in compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 ("ERISA").
The sole issue in this interlocutory appeal concerns the nature of the parties' legal relationship: are the plaintiffs…
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