Legal Opinion
Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company v. Mary J. Waller, Provident Life & Accident Insurance Company v. Mary J. Waller
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided July 10, 1990No. 89-2123, 89-2124PublishedCited by 184 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURNAGHAN, Circuit Judge:
We are presented with several difficult questions regarding the scope of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”) and the power of the federal courts to fill in the interstices of this comprehensive and labyrinthine statute. Specifically, we address whether the Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. (“Provident”) may recover monies advanced to one of its plan participants, Mary J. Waller, after she was injured in an auto accident. In response to Provident’s action under ERISA for recovery of the advanced benefits, the district court concluded…
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