Author : LandMark Publications
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ISBN 13 : 9781980204961
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)
Book Synopsis ERISA Preemption by : LandMark Publications
Download or read book ERISA Preemption written by LandMark Publications and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS CASEBOOK contains a selection of U. S. Court of Appeals decisions that analyze and discuss ERISA preemption. ERISA is one of those federal statutes with expansive preemptive power. See Hartland Lakeside Joint No. 3 Sch. Dist. v. WEA Ins. Corp., 756 F.3d 1032, 1035 (7th Cir. 2014) ("ERISA ... may contain the broadest preemption clause of any federal statute and completely occupies the field of employees' health and welfare benefits...."). And with the exception of a few identified circumstances, ERISA "supersede[s] any and all State laws insofar as they may now or hereafter relate to any employee benefit plan" created by any employer engaged in interstate commerce. ERISA § 514(a), 29 U.S.C. § 1144(a). Studer v. Katherine Shaw Bethea Hosp., 867 F. 3d 721 (7th Cir. 2017).In Davila, the Supreme Court created a two-step test to determine if a plaintiff's state-law claim is preempted by ERISA: a state-law claim is completely preempted (1) "if an individual, at some point in time, could have brought his claim under" ERISA's expansive civil enforcement mechanism -- ERISA § 502(a)(1)(B), 29 U.S.C. § 1132(a)(1)(B) -- and (2) "where there is no other independent legal duty that is implicated by a defendant's actions." Davila, 542 U.S. at 210, 124 S.Ct. 2488. We consider each step of this test in turn. Studer v. Katherine Shaw Bethea Hosp., ibid.