United States Fifth Circuit

Summary judgment for defendant-insurer in a dispute with a bank involving stop-loss coverage is reversed in part where the district court erred in holding that the bank-s state law claims of detrimental reliance, breach of contract, and misrepresentation were preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/04/2006
• Published 08/07/2006

Judges

• EMILIO M. GARZA, Circuit Judge:, Before REAVLEY, GARZA and BENAVIDES, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Henry L. Klein (argued), New Orleans, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Richard Guy Duplantier, Jr., Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith, New Orleans, LA, John Bruce Shely (argued), Kendall Matthew Gray, Andrews & Kurth, Houston, TX, for Defendants-Appellees.