Legal Opinion
In Re Paris
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided April 15, 1999No. Civ. S 99-613PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
SMALKIN, District Judge.
This is a case removed under the preemptive sweep of ERISA. The case was originally instituted by a petition filed in a Maryland state court seeking a declaration that the “make whole doctrine” cuts off the subrogation rights of the Iron Workers’ Trust Fund, which is seeking reimbursement for considerable expenditures it has made for medical care and treatment furnished to its ERISA plan beneficiary, Shawn R. Paris, who was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in Maryland in June of 1996. (The petition was amended, following removal to this…
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