United States Sixth Circuit

California law governed employee ERISA plan, where policy holder was a California resident, the insurance certificate was signed there, and the medical costs incurred there.

Appellate Information

• Decided 11/30/2000
• Published 11/30/2000

Judges

• Before MERRITT, KENNEDY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Mary M. Utterback (briefed), Thelen, Reid & Priest, Washington, DC, Curtis A. Cole, briefed, Thelen, Reid & Priest, Los Angeles, CA, for California Healthcare Ass'n, Amicus Curiae in No. 99-3988.


• For Appellees:
  
• Stephen F. Gladstone (argued and briefed), Michael J. Holleran (briefed), Frantz & Ward, Cleveland, OH, for Plaintiff-Appellee Medical Mutual of Ohio in Nos. 99-3988, 00-3571., William F. Gibson, Robert H. Eddy (argued and briefed), Janice Aitken (briefed), Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant-Appellant Denise deSoto in No. 00-3571., William F. Gibson, Robert H. Eddy (argued and briefed), Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant-Appellant Jose Peppy deSoto in No. 00-3571., Janice Aitken (briefed), Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant-Appellant Denise deSoto in No. 99-3988., Robert H. Eddy (argued and briefed), Janice Aitken, Gallagher, Sharp, Fulton & Norman, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant-Appellant Jose Peppy deSoto in No. 99-3988.