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· 5/30/1980

The Taggart Corporation v. Life and Health Benefits Administration, Inc.

Citations

  • 617 F.2d 1208
  • 2 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 2472
  • 1980 U.S. App. LEXIS 17076

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that evidence of employer’s purchase of insurance for lone employee is insufficient to establish ERISA plan
  • noting that in case of employer merely purchasing policy, no trust assets existed for ERISA to protect
  • noting that ERISA does not regulate the purchase of health insurance if “the purchasing employer neither directly nor indirectly owns, controls, administers or assumes responsibility for the policy or its benefits”
  • ERISA does not regulate the bare purchase of health insurance if the purchasing employer neither directly nor indirectly owns, controls, administers, or assumes responsibility for the policy or its benefits

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Judges: Hill, Garza, Clark

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