UNIVERSAL PRESCRIPTION ADMINISTRATORS, INC. v. CASALE


259 A.D.2d 383 (1999)

687 N.Y.S.2d 102

UNIVERSAL PRESCRIPTION ADMINISTRATORS, INC., Appellant, v. DOMINICK CASALE et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

Decided March 23, 1999.


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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