Industrial Technical Services v. Phoenix Home Life Mutual Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• the “central concern” of ERISA preemption is the “preservation of the ‘administrative integrity’ of the plan, particularly ‘uniformity with respect to regulation of activities’ surrounding the plan.”
• the court also suggested that the words “relate to” should be “exiled from the terminology of the law and returned to their original source, presumably somewhere in southern California”
• state law claims arising from defendant’s alleged misrepresentations in selling employer insurance policies on key employees that failed, as allegedly promised, to match terms offered by competitor did not “relate to” the plan and were thus not preempted by ERISA

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).