TAGGART CORP. v. LIFE & HEALTH BENEFITS ADMIN.

No. 79-3285. Summary Calendar.

617 F.2d 1208 (1980)

The TAGGART CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. LIFE AND HEALTH BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

May 30, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rowland & Keim, David H. Graves, Houston, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Louis L. Joseph, Carin A. Clauss, Sol., Monica Gallagher, Norman P. Goldberg, U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., Dale Wootton, Dallas, Tex., amicus curiae.

Fulbright & Jaworski, Ronald D. Secrest, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before HILL, GARZA and THOMAS A. CLARK, Circuit Judges.


JAMES C. HILL, Circuit Judge:

The Security Multiple Employers Trust [SMET], appellee, provides group insurance to employers too small to qualify for group rates on their own. Employers subscribe to SMET and thereby become members of SMET's "group" of subscribers; SMET then pools the "group's" premiums and purchases insurance on their behalf. Taggart Corp., appellant, whose sole employee is Stanley M. Kansas, appellant, subscribed to SMET in 1976. Kansas and his family...

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