Francis v. Thienes

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that a converted individual policy was not itself an ERISA plan because the policy “covered [the plaintiff] as an individual and not as an employee of . . . any . . . employer”
• discussing individual insurance coverage converted from an “ERISA-regulated group insurance plan”
• “[plaintiff] applied for individual coverage with [insurer] pursuant to the conversion rights of the group policy.”
• “A converted policy ... is independent of the ERISA plan and does not place any burdens on the plan administrator or the plan. There are no relevant administrative actions by the employer.”
• converted policy not subject to ERISA
• converted policy not subject to ERISA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).