Trustees of the Aftra Health Fund v. Biondi

How courts have described this case

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• arguing that absence of remedial damages under ERISA was a factor weighing against preemption of state tort claim
• rejecting argument that state interpretation of ERISA plan provisions requires preemption of state claim
• “[W]e hold that a plan participant’s decision to commit fraud in the context of an employee benefit plan does not immunize him from tort liability under state law.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).