Margery A. Morstein v. National Insurance Services, Inc. Pan American Life Insurance Company the Shaw Agency Scott Hankins

How courts have described this case

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• holding, in light of New York Blues, that ERISA did not preempt plaintiff's state law tort claims against independent insurance agent and insurer
• outlining, in particular, the legislative history of ERISA, the original purpose of ERISA, and Supreme Court case law
• reversing the grant of summary judgment and concluding that the “claims do not fall within ERISA’s broad preemptive scope, as they do not have a sufficient connection with the plan to ‘relate to’ the plan.”
• “Congress did not intend for ERISA preemption to extend to state law tort claims brought against an insurance agent”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).