Disability Claimants Seek High Court's Review Of Service-Of-Suit Ruling

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court should grant a petition for writ of certiorari because the Colorado Supreme Court's dismissal of two long-term disability insurance lawsuits based on the failure to serve the proper parties has widened an existing conflict between federal courts of appeal regarding whether a benefit plan governed by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act is a proper defendant, the petitioners argue in their May 11 brief filed in the high court (Brenda Olivar v. Public Service Employee Credit Union Long Term Disability Plan, and Caroline Burton, et al. v. Colorado Access, et al., No. 17-1543, U.S. Sup., 2018 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 1932).
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