
    Michael CONKLIN, Steven A. Voisin and Joyce Voisin v. VARIABLE PROTECTION ADMINISTRATORS, INC., L. Ward & Associates, J. Thomas Hassell and Lonnie Thibodeaux.
    No. 88-CC-2634.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    Dec. 9, 1988.
   In re Variable Protection Admn.; — Defendants); applying for supervisory and/or remedial writs; Parish of Terre-bonne, 32nd Judicial District Court, Div. “B”, No. 86,948; to the Court of Appeal, First Circuit, No. CW88 1291.

Granted. The judgment of the trial court is reversed, and judgment is rendered maintaining the exception to jurisdiction over the subject matter. ERISA preempts plaintiffs’ state law claims. See Pilot Life Insurance Co. v. Dedeaux, 481 U.S. 41, 107 S.Ct. 1549, 95 L.Ed.2d 39 (1987), and Belasco v. W.K.P. Wilson & Sons, Inc., 833 F.2d 277 (11th Cir.1987).  