Legal Opinion
Metropolitan Life Insurance v. Taylor
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 6, 1987No. 85-686PublishedCited by 3,190 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice O’Connor
In Pilot Life Ins. Co. v. Dedeaux, ante, p. 41, the Court held that state common law causes of action asserting improper processing of a claim for benefits under an employee benefit plan regulated by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 88 Stat. 829, 29 U. S. C. § 1001 et seq., are pre-empted by the Act. 29 U. S. C. § 1144 (a). The question presented by this litigation is whether these state common law claims are not only pre-empted by ERISA, but also displaced by ERISA’s civil enforcement provision, § 502(a)(1)(B), 29 U. S. C. § 1132(a)(1)(B),1 to the extent that…
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