Bunt v. Pension Mortgage Associates, Inc.

HESTER, Judge:

Dr. Alexander Bunt, Jr., in his capacity as trustee for Christian Medical Center Defined Benefit Pension Plan, Campus Medical Center (the “Plan”), appeals the April 26, 1994 decision of the trial court to dismiss two actions based on the fact that they are pre-empted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (“ERISA”), 29 U.S. §§ 1001, et seq., and that pursuant to that statute, Pennsylvania lacks jurisdiction. We affirm.

Two separate actions are at issue herein. 1 Appellant instituted both actions in his capacity as trustee of the Plan. In 1989, appellant instituted the…