Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Richard E. Hanslip, Administrator of the Estate of Robert Louis Hanslip, Deceased, Ardith McCool
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 16, 1991No. 90-6285PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHEN H. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
The single issue presented in this declaratory judgment action is whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) preempts Okla.Stat. tit. 15, § 178 (1981). The district court held it does, and ruled that plaintiff Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (Metlife) acted properly when it distributed life insurance proceeds from an ERISA plan to defendant Ardith McCool, rather than defendant Richard Hanslip, in his capacity as administrator of the estate of Robert Hanslip. We affirm. 1
BACKGROUND
Before his death in March of 1989, Robert Hanslip…
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