Cleghorn v. Blue Shield Of California

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that claims were preempted where \the factual basis of the complaint... was the denial of reimbursement of plan benefits\
• collecting cases where state statutory and tort claims are have been preempted, including claims for “damages for what are essentially claim processing causes of action”
• dismissing state law claims, including those arising under the UCL, as ERISA-preempted
• “Any duty or liability that Blue Shield had to reimburse him ‘would exist here only because of [Blue Shield’s] administration of ERISA-regulated benefit plans.” (quotation and citation omitted)
• “The relief sought on the claims most strongly argued to survive preemption included restitutionary relief, disgorgement of profits, injunctive and other equitable relief, and attorneys’ fees”
• characterizing ERISA’s preemptive force as \powerful\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).