United States Eleventh Circuit

The McCarran-Ferguson Act does not reverse-preempt a civil rights claim against an insurance company alleging racial discrimination in charging premiums and paying benefits on life insurance policies.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/28/2001
• Published 09/28/2001

Judges

• WILSON, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH, WILSON and FARRIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Anne Sikes Hornsby, Lightfoot, Franklin & White, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, for Mutual Savings Life Ins. Co., Amicus Curiae., Thomas W. Osborne, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, DC, for AARP, Amicus Curiae., Norman J. Chachkin, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc., New York City, for NAACP Legal Defense, Amicus Curiae., Robert H. Stroup, NAACP legal Defense & Educational Fund, New York City, for NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Amicus Curiae., Thomas J. Henderson, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC, for Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, Amicus Curiae., Samuel H. Franklin, William H. King, III, Lightfoot, Franklin, White & Lucas, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Amicus Counsel.


• For Appellees:
  
• Floyd Gaines, Birmingham, AL, Scott B. Smith, Michael R. Pennington, Robert K. Spotswood, Bradley, Arant, Rose & White, LLP, Birmingham, AL, for Defendant-Appellant., John J. Stoia, Jr., Timothy G. Blood, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, LLP, San Diego, CA, Herman Watson, Jr., Watson, Fees & Jimmerson, P.C., Rebekah Keith, Watson, Jimmerson, P.C., Huntsville, AL, Joe R. Whatley, Jr., Whatley Drake, L.L.C., Birmingham, AL, Sanford Svetcov, Milberg, Weiss, Bershad, Hynes & Lerach, LLP, San Francisco, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellees.