Legal Opinion
Ritter v. Massachusetts Casualty Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided April 18, 2003PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtCowin, J.
We are asked to decide whether the Federal Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. (1994), preempts State law claims made by the president of a small corporation in a denial of benefits suit. We hold that the plaintiff has no standing to sue under ERISA, and, consequently, that her State law claims are not preempted by that Federal statute.
*215I. Background.
The plaintiff, Carol K. Ritter, appeals from the allowance of a motion for summary judgment filed by the defendant, Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company (insurer). We recite the facts in the light most…
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