TOTAL BENEFITS PLANNING AGENCY v. ANTHEM BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD

No. 07-4115.

552 F.3d 430 (2008)

TOTAL BENEFITS PLANNING AGENCY, INC., et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. ANTHEM BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: December 22, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Richard B. Reiling, Law Office, Dayton, Ohio, for Appellants. James M. Burns, Williams Mullen, Washington, D.C., Mark Edward Elsener, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Richard B. Reiling, Law Office, Dayton, Ohio, for Appellants. James M. Burns, Williams Mullen, Washington, D.C., Mark Edward Elsener, Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, Cincinnati, Ohio, Kent A. Britt, Glenn V. Whitaker, Vorys, Sater, Seymour & Pease, Cincinnati, Ohio, B. Scott Jones, Reminger Co. LPA, Cincinnati, Ohio, Thomas J. Gruber, McCaslin, Imbus & McCaslin, Cincinnati, Ohio, Peter L. Cassady, Sarah Clay Leyshock, Brian R. Redden, Beckman Weil Shepardson, Cincinnati, Ohio, John R. Folkerth, Jr., Weprin, Folkerth & Routh, Dayton, Ohio, Christopher Freeman Johnson, Freund, Freeze & Arnold, Dayton, Ohio, Maria Del Monaco, Ulmer & Berne, Cleveland, Ohio, John M. Hands, Ulmer & Berne, Cincinnati, Ohio, Edward R. Goldman, Rendigs, Fry, Kiely & Dennis, Cincinnati, Ohio, for Appellees.

Before: GILMAN and ROGERS, Circuit Judges; ZOUHARY, District Judge.


OPINION

JACK ZOUHARY, District Judge.

Total Benefits Planning Agency and four of its insurance agents (collectively "Total Benefits") appeal a dismissal of their amended complaint for failure to state a claim under 12(b)(6) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Total Benefits maintained contracts with Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield; Anthem Life Insurance Company, Inc.; Anthem Health Plans of Kentucky, Inc...

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