Lovelace v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

How courts have described this case

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• holding that employee of a city public school district participating in a health insurance plan established by collective bargaining with public and private Ohio educational institutions are exempt from ERISA
• “A plan established by a government employer through collective bargaining meets the ERISA ‘governmental plan’ requirements”
• same for plan covering city public school system employees, even though plan was issued and administered by private insurer
• “Prudential’s administration of the policy does not negate the “governmental plan” character of the [public school system’s] plan”
• “ERISA-regulates employee benefit plans, such.as the plan at issue .... [but] exempt[s] any plan established or maintained ‘by the government of any State or political subdivision thereof for its employees.” (emphasis added)
• plan established by government employer through collective bargaining meets governmental plan exception

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).