United States Fifth Circuit

The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) does not preempt section 40:2010 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes, which requires insurance companies to honor all assignments of benefit claims made by patients to hospitals, to the extent that it applies to fully insured ERISA plans.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/16/2006
• Published 08/17/2006

Judges

• PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:, Before HIGGINBOTHAM, DeMOSS and OWEN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James Randall Nelson (argued), DLA Piper RudnickGray Cary, Dallas, TX, Amelia Williams Koch, Steven Franklin Griffith, Jr., Baker Donelson Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, New Orleans, LA, for Rapides Healthcare System and Dauterive Hosp., Thomas More Flanagan (argued), Jennifer L. Thornton, Thomas Patrick Owern, Jr., Stanley, Flanagan & Reuter, New Orleans, LA, for State of LA and Foti., Mary Ellen Signorille, AARP, Washington, DC, for AARP, Amicus Curiae., James K. Irvin, Roselyn B. Koretzky, Miling Benson Woodward, New Orleans, LA, for LA Hosp. Ass'n, Amicus Curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Howard Shapiro (argued), Heather G. Magier, Proskauer Rose, New Orleans, LA, V. Thomas Clark, Jr., Leigh F. Groves, Crawford & Lewis, Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff-Intervenor Defendant-Appellant.