Legal Opinion
Susan Wolfson v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided May 3, 1995No. 94-1849PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOKEN, Circuit Judge.
Susan Wolfson appeals a series of orders staying her action to recover life insurance benefits under an ERISA plan. The district court 1 granted the stay after Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company (“MBL”) became the subject of an insolvency proceeding commenced under the New Jersey Life and Health Insurers Rehabilitation and Liquidation Act. See N.J.Stat.Ann. § 17B:32-31 to -91. This appeal requires us to apply the often-perplexing federal law of abstention to the equally complex subject of insurance company insolvency proceedings. Concluding on the facts of this case…
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