Alexander Menkes v. Prudential Insurance Co of Ame

How courts have described this case

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• holding amendment would be futile where the state-law claim was preempted
• holding amendment would be futile where the state-law claim was preempted
• barring any claim that “provides a form of ultimate relief in a judicial forum that add[s] to the judicial remedies provided by ERISA.”
• affirming dismissal of state-law claims as preempted and rejecting the plaintiff’s contention that “closely related components of an overarching welfare benefit plan ought to be unbundled” for purposes of determining whether they are governed by ERISA
• “The plaintiffs’ claim for punitive damages is conflict preempted by ERISA’s exclusive civil remedy scheme....”
• “Because these claims explicitly require reference to the plan and what it covers, they are expressly preempted.”

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