California Brain Institute, Inc. v. United HealthCare Services, Inc.

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United States District Court Central District of California

11 CALIFORNIA BRAIN INSTITUTE, Case № 2:23-cv-06071-ODW (RAOx)

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v.

DISMISS [27]

14 UNITED HEALTHCARE SERVICES, INC. et al.,

Defendants. 16 I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff California Brain Institute (“CBI”) brings this action against Defendant 19 United Healthcare Services, Inc. (“United”) for improperly withholding payment for 20 medical services CBI provided. (Second Am. Compl. (“SAC”), ECF No. 24.) CBI 21 brings three state law claims in its individual capacity and one federal law claim as its 22 patient’s assignee pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Securities Act of 1974 23 (“ERISA”). United moves to dismiss CBI’s state law claims. (Mot. Dismiss (“Mot.” 24 or “Motion”), ECF No. 27.) For the reasons discussed below, the Court finds ERISA’s 25 statutory scheme preempts CBI’s state law claims and therefore GRANTS the 26 Motion.1

28 1 Having carefully considered the papers filed in connection with the Motion, the Court deemed the…