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PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 636 INS. FUND v. BLUE CROSS

No. 09-2607.

654 F.3d 618 (2011)

PIPEFITTERS LOCAL 636 INSURANCE FUND, Trustees of; John Green; Charles Inman; John O'Neil; Greg Sievert; E. Thomas Devlin; Gerald Hoover, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MICHIGAN, Defendant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided and Filed: August 12, 2011.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied September 20, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

ARGUED: Francis R. Ortiz , Dickinson Wright PLLC, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant. Ronald S. Lederman , Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellees. ON BRIEF: Francis R. Ortiz , Phillip J. DeRosier , Toby A. White , Dickinson Wright PLLC, Detroit, Michigan, for Appellant. Ronald S. Lederman , Sharon S. Almonrode , Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, Southfield, Michigan, for Appellees. Christopher L. Kerr , Office of the Michigan Attorney General, Lansing, Michigan, for Amicus Curiae.

SUHRHEINRICH, J., delivered the opinion of the court, in which ROGERS, J., joined. CLAY, J. (pp. 633-37), delivered a separate opinion dissenting in part.

OPINION

SUHRHEINRICH, Circuit Judge.

Defendant-Appellant, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan ("BCBSM"), brings this interlocutory appeal following the district court's certification of a class action on behalf of Plaintiffs-Appellees, Pipefitters Local 636 Insurance Fund and its Trustees ("Fund"), and the proposed class, in this action brought under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA"), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. Because...

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