Lois Gibson v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an employee’s suit against agent for denied disability benefits was preempted
• holding claim alleging insurer engaged in \fraud\ during claims-handling s 13 || process was preempted, as was claim alleging insurer breached duty of good faith and 14 || fair dealing by engaging in \unreasonable\ conduct during claims-handling process
• state law causes of action which arose from the handling and disposition of claims to ERISA plan benefits were preempted by ERISA
• \The existence of some remedy for misconduct by nonfiduciaries suggests that Congress intended to include their behavior under ERISA.\
• “The existence of some remedy for misconduct by nonfiduciaries suggests that Congress intended to include their behavior under ERISA.”
• state law causes of action which arose from the handling and disposition of claims to ERISA plan benefits were preempted by ERISA

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