Plaintiff, the manager/administrator of an employee drug prescription plan, sued the plan's trust fund and trustees for breach of its service contract. The action was dismissed as "pre-empted" by Federal statute (29 USC § 1144 [a]) because it was "related to" an employee benefit plan. This was error.
Federal pre-emption of this field was an effort by Congress to avoid interference with the nationally uniform administration of employee benefit plans (New York...
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