Pension Rights Center Urges High Court To Review Issue Of Forum-Selection Clauses

(December 9, 2016, 8:56 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an amicus curiae brief filed on Dec. 2 in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Pension Rights Center urges the high court to review a decision by the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that enforced a disability plan’s forum-selection clause, arguing that the allowance of forum-selection clauses in disability plans does not provide plan participants with ready access to federal courts and forces participants to sue in a court chosen by a plan (Lorna Clause v. U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, et al., No. 16-641, U.S. Sup.; 2016 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4420; 2016 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 4114)....