Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Wellpoint, Inc.
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided September 27, 2012No. Case No. 10-cv-357-JPGPublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
J. PHIL GILBERT, District Judge.
This matter comes before the Court on defendants’ motion to dismiss (Doc. 26). Plaintiffs filed a response (Doc. 60) to which defendants replied (Doc. 61). For the following reasons the Court grants in part and denies in part defendants’ motion to dismiss.
BACKGROUND
This case consists of substantially the same facts as Cima v. WellPoint Health Networks, Inc., No. 05-cv-4127, a case previously before this Court. Drawing the facts from plaintiffs’ well-pleaded complaint, the Court will once again recount the events leading up to the filing of…
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