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SERRATO v. JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INS. CO.

Nos. 93-55290, 93-55292, 93-55295 and 93-55297.

31 F.3d 882 (1994)

Vanessa SERRATO, an incapacitated person, by and through her guardian ad litem, Dora Serrato, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, and Norton Lilly & Company, Inc. Employee Benefits Plan, Defendant-Appellee. Vanessa SERRATO, an incapacitated person, by and through her guardian ad litem, Dora Serrato, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. Vanessa SERRATO, an incapacitated person, by and through her guardian ad litem, Dora Serrato, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, and Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellee. Vanessa SERRATO, an incapacitated person, by and through her guardian ad litem, Dora Serrato, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. JOHN HANCOCK LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Defendant, and Teamsters Industrial Security Fund & Southwest Administrators, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided August 2, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sharon J. Arkin, Shernoff, Bidart & Darras, Claremont, CA, for plaintiff-appellant.

Rita Gunasekaran, Haight, Brown & Bonesteel, Santa Monica, Geoffrey T. Tong and Linda M. Lawson, Meserve, Mumper & Hughes, Los Angeles, and Julius Mel Reich, Reich, Adell, Crost & Cvitan, Los Angeles, CA, for defendants-appellees.

Before: FLETCHER, CANBY and HALL, Circuit Judges.

CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

Vanessa Serro appeals the district court's summary judgment determination that ERISA preempts her state-law medical benefit claims against the issuers, administrators, and underwriters of her parents' employee welfare benefit plans. We affirm.

I.

In December 1987, eighteen-year-old Vanessa Serrato underwent surgery following an automobile accident. During the course of an operation to amputate her leg, Serrato...

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