Legal Opinion
Margery A. Morstein v. National Insurance Services, Inc. Pan American Life Insurance Company the Shaw Agency Scott Hankins
Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Decided August 19, 1996No. 94-9152PublishedCited by 93 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BIRCH, Circuit Judge:
This case was taken en banc to clarify the law in our circuit regarding state law preemption by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 (1988). In this appeal, we must decide whether state law claims asserted against an independent insurance agent and his agency for fraudulent inducement to purchase and negligence in processing an application for an ERISA-governed insurance plan sufficiently relate to an employee benefit plan within the meaning of section 514(a) of ERISA, 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a), so as to be preempted. Because we…
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