Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit April 21, 2011, Docket 10-1451-cv (Montefiore Medical Center v. Teamsters Local 272)

JOSÉ A. CABRANES, Circuit Judge:

This case is yet another act in the all-too-familiar drama involving patients, their health care providers, and their health care benefit plans. The question presented is whether a health care provider’s breach of contract and quasi-contract claims against a benefit plan established pursuant to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.