United States Eleventh Circuit

In an action seeking reimbursement for medical expenses, dismissal for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, as well as the denial of other requested relief, where none of the claims involved "appropriate equitable relief" as required for a claim under ERISA, is reversed as to two plaintiffs in light of Sereboff v. Mid-Atlantic Med. Servs., Inc., 126 S. Ct. 1869 (2006), as those plaintiffs have stated a claim for "appropriate equitable relief" under 29 U.S.C. section 1132(a)(3).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/24/2006
• Published 08/24/2006

Judges

• BIRCH, Circuit Judge:, Before BIRCH and WILSON, Circuit Judges, and ROYAL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eleventh Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph Kran Riddle, Calaway, Braun, Riddle & Hughes, P.C., Savannah, GA, for Popowski & The Commerce Group., Charles Madden Cork, III, Gambrell & Stolz, LLC, Macon, GA, for Vincente Carillo & Georgia Trial Lawyers Ass'n, Amicus Curiae., Jason R. Schultz, Office of Jason R. Schultz, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Parrott., Thomas H. Lawrence, Lawrence & Russell, LLP, Memphis, TN, for Blue Cross Blue Shield Ass'n, Amicus Curiae., Wayne R. Berry, U.S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, DC, for Chao, Amicus Curiae., Polly M. Haley, Thomas H. Lawrence, Lawrence & Russell, LLP, Memphis, TN, for BlueCross BlueShield of SC., Ansel Franklin Beacham, Brinson, Askew, Berry, Siegler, Richardson & Davis, Rome, GA, for Josue Carillo., Waldemar Jacob Pflepsen, Jr., Jorden Burt, LLP, Washington, DC, for U.S. and Am. Health Ins. Plans, Inc., Amici Curiae., Michael G. Monnolly, Alston & Bird, LLP, Atlanta, GA, for Self-Ins. Inst. of America, Inc., Amicus Curiae., Elizabeth Hopkins, Plan Ben. Sec. Div., U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Sol., Washington, DC, for Chao, Amicus Curiae., Robert E. McCormack, Atlanta, GA, for State Bar of GA, Amicus Curiae.