Legal Opinion
Fuller v. Norton
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided June 19, 1996No. 95-1163PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUCERO, Circuit Judge.
Appellant is the trustee of an Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) plan offering benefits to the employees of its employer members through a multiple employer welfare arrangement (“MEWA”), as defined by section 3 of ERISA. 29 U.S.C. § 1002(3),(40). He claims that because his plan is within the protection of ERISA law, it may not be regulated as an insurance entity by the state of Colorado. Underpinning appellant’s prosecution of this case is a belief that ERISA preemption allows a MEWA and its members to avoid state regulation that would apply to…
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