Legal Opinion
Brigette Brundage-Peterson v. Compcare Health Services Insurance Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 5, 1989No. 88-3032PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Circuit Judge.
This appeal requires us to consider the meaning of the term “employee welfare benefit plan” in ERISA. The statutory definition is “any plan, fund, or program ... established or maintained by an employer or by an employee organization ... for the purpose of providing for its participants or their beneficiaries, through the purchase of insurance or otherwise, medical, surgical, or hospital care or benefits, or benefits in the event of sickness, accident, disability, death or unemployment [etc.].” 29 U.S.C. § 1002(1)(A). The plaintiff, an employee of United Community Center…
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