United of Omaha Life Insurance v. Solomon

This is an appeal from an order of the district court granting the plaintiff-appel-lee’s motion for a preliminary injunction and denying the intervening defendant-appellant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings. For the reasons which follow, we reverse the decision of the district court *33and remand with directions to dismiss the complaint.

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The pertinent facts are undisputed. The State of Michigan (State) has been offering life insurance to its employees for years. It is a self-insurer, assuming essentially all of the risk for payment of claims. It hires an insurance company to provide…