Case Status

CIGNA HEALThCARE OF TEXAS, INC. v. CALAD, RUBY R., ET AL. (42246)

    Order dated: 11/03/03
    Docket number: 03-83
    Action:
        Inc., et al., for leave to file a brief as amici curiae is granted. The petitions for writs of certiorari are granted. The cases are consolidated and a total of one hour is allotted for oral argument. CERTIORARI DENIED

CIGNA HEALThCARE OF TEXAS, INC. v. CALAD, RUBY R., ET AL. (42246)

    Order dated: 02/23/04
    Docket number: 03-83
    Action:
        in oral argument as amicus curiae and for divided argument is granted. The motion of Texas, et al. for leave to participate in oral argument as amici curiae and for divided argument is granted.

A description of the questions presented by the case has been prepared:

Whether the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq. ("ERISA"), as construed by the Supreme Court in Pilot Life Insurance Co. v. Dedeaux, 481 U.S. 41 (1987), and its progeny, completely preempts state-law claims by ERISA plan participants or beneficiaries who assert that a managed care company tortiously "failed to cover" (i.e., pay for) medical care?