Coleman v. Standard Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• plaintiff does not need to use particular words “plead in alternative”
• “In the ERISA context, in particular, there will often be good reason for alternatively pleading state and federal claims. . . . ERISA preemption often presents the sort of situation for which Rule 8’s alternative pleading provision is designed emphasis original

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