A welfare plan participant can’t continue with his putative class action claiming interference with business and contractual relations against Aetna Life Insurance Co. and Rawlings Co. LLC, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama ruled (Daily v. The Rawlings Co., 2016 BL 11778, N.D. Ala., 2:15-CV-1138-VEH, 1/15/16).
In her Jan. 15 opinion, Judge Virginia Emerson Hopkins granted Aetna and Rawling’s motion to dismiss, holding that their threats to sue third-party insurers constituted justified interference under the plan’s language. Hopkins also ruled that the participant didn’t have to exhaust administrative remedies prior to filing a ...
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