Legal Opinion
Letourneau Lifelike Orthotics & Prosthetics, Inc. v. Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided July 10, 2002No. 01-40995PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHENER, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiff-Appellee LeTourneau Lifelike Orthotics & Prosthetics, Inc. (“LeTour-neau”) filed this action in district court against the captioned Defendants-Appellants, seeking $9,767 in payment for replacing part of a prosthetic device that LeTourneau had furnished to Pamela L. Nichols, a beneficiary of the defendant Wal-Mart Associates Health & Welfare Plan (the “Plan”). In addition to asserting that claim under Section 502 of ERISA, 1 LeTourneau advanced the Texas common law claim of quantum meruit. The state law claim and all claims against defendant Wal-Mart Stores,…
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