Transamerica Occidental Life Insurance Company, a Corporation, Plaintiff v. Linda Ann Digregorio

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• holding that the district court lacked jurisdiction under ERISA, had discretionary jurisdiction under the Declaratory Judgment Act, but was permitted to abstain under Brillhart
• holding that an insurance company’s declaratory judgment action presented a legal claim where the underlying controversy was a beneficiary’s contractual claim for double indemnity benefits under a life insurance policy covered by ERISA
• declaratory judgment action by ERISA insurer to establish that its policy did not provide double indemnity to a particular insured was not a suit to “enforce” the terms of the plan
• “[T]o ascertain the presence of federal jurisdiction in a declaratory judgment action, it is necessary to determine whether the defendant against whom declaratory judgment is sought could have asserted his rights in a federal court”

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