United States Sixth Circuit

Denial of a motion to dismiss brought by defendant, health care corporation, as to a claim it had fraudulently denied plaintiffs-gynecologists' claims in violation of RICO is affirmed where defendant's claim that plaintiffs' action was "reverse preempted" by state law in accordance with the McCarran-Ferguson Act failed.

Appellate Information

• Decided 03/14/2006
• Published 03/14/2006

Judges

• Before:  RYAN, CLAY, and GILMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Sixth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:  Joseph A. Fink, Dickinson, Wright, PLLC, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant.  William H. Horton, Cox, Hodgman & Giarmarco, Troy, Michigan, for Appellees.   ON BRIEF:  Joseph A. Fink, Kathleen A. Lang, Phillip J. DeRosier, Dickinson, Wright, PLLC, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant.  William H. Horton, Cox, Hodgman & Giarmarco, Troy, Michigan, for Appellees.  Joanne Geha Swanson, Michael A. Sneyd, Daniel J. Schulte, Kerr, Russell & Weber, Detroit, Michigan, for Amici Curiae.