SOANES v. EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD

Nos. 91 Civ. 8698(JES), 92 Civ. 0223(JES), 92 Civ. 0422(JES), and 92 Civ. 0423(JES).

970 F.Supp. 230 (1997)

Nemiah SOANES, Arthur Hawke, Vincent Fuentes, George Schwartz, George Rosenfeld, John Economos, as Trustees of Retail Local 906 AFL-CIO Welfare Fund, Plaintiffs, v. EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD, Defendant. EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. LOCAL 906 AFL-CIO, The Associated Members Brokerage Group, Inc., The American Employee Group Benefits Administrator, Inc., The Greater Northeast Business Group, Inc., Solomon Sprei, Herbert Lieber, and Nemiah Soanes, Third-Party Defendants. Morton NATHAN, Peter Janis and Lorinda Thomas, Individually and on behalf of the Local 906 AFL-CIO Welfare Fund, and Nemiah Soanes, Althea Neblett, Vincent Fuentes, George Schwartz, George Rosenfeld and John Economos, as Trustees of Retail Local 906 AFL-CIO Welfare Fund, Plaintiffs, v. EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD, Defendant. The AMERICAN EMPLOYEE GROUP BENEFITS ADMINISTRATOR, INC., Plaintiff, v. EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD, Defendant. EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD, Third-Party Plaintiff, v. LOCAL 1-J HEALTH FUND A & B, Local I-J of the Service Employees International Union, The Associated Members Brokerage Group, Inc., Solomon Sprei, Herbert Lieber, and Oswald Gutierrez, Third-Party Defendants. Solomon SPREI and Steven Adler, Plaintiffs, v. EMPIRE BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 7, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hershkowitz & Goldweber, Trustees of Local 906 Welfare Fund, Local 906 Welfare Fund, Nathan, Janis and Thomas, Mineola, NY (Max Goldweber, of counsel), for Plaintiffs.

Kornstein Veisz & Wexler, New York City (Daniel J. Kornstein, of counsel), for Defendant Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield.

Snow Becker Krauss P.C., New York City (William D. Hummell, of counsel), for Third-Party Defendants Local I-J Health Fund A & B, Local I-J of the Services Employees International Union.


OPINION AND ORDER

SPRIZZO, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, trustees of an employees' union fund, bring the above-captioned action Soanes, et al. v. Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, 91 Civ. 8698(JES) ("Empire I"), against defendant Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield ("Empire"), a not-for-profit health insurer. Plaintiffs claim, inter alia, that Empire breached a health insurance contract ("contract 82079") and a written stipulation, violated N.Y...

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