Albert Einstein Medical Center v. National Benefit Fund for Hospital & Health Care Employees

How courts have described this case

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• holding that “estoppel” claim is preempted by ERISA
• an assignee of a plan participant has standing to bring an ERISA cause of action against the Plan.
• in dicta, “... I believe that ERISA does not forbid assignment by a beneficiary of his right to reimbursement to a health care provider nor does it forbid an ERISA plan from reimbursing the health care provider directly.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).