Mapp v. American General Assurance Co.

OPINION AND ORDER

MYRON H. THOMPSON, District Judge.

Plaintiff Benjamin Mapp filed this lawsuit against defendant American General Assurance Company, asserting that it failed to pay benefits due to him after he suffered a heart attack in September 2006. Mapp originally filed suit in state court, asserting state-law claims of breach of contract and bad faith. American General removed to this court, contending: first, Mapp’s state-law claims are preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001-1461 and thus this court has federal-question jurisdiction;…