Sharp v. National Rural Electric Cooperative Ass'n

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

SUSAN WEBBER WRIGHT, District Judge.

This case involves a dispute over the payment of health care benefits under an employee benefit plan. Plaintiffs filed a breach of contract claim against the defendants in state court on June 1, 1993, for failure to pay approximately $60,000.00 in mental health benefits. Defendants removed the case to federal court on July 1, 1993, as a claim preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. Now before the Court are plaintiffs’ motion for partial summary judgment and defendants’…