6th Circuit Correctly Found Disability Claims Preempted By ERISA, Respondent Says

(September 7, 2017, 5:49 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny a petition for writ of certiorari because the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals correctly determined that a former marketing director’s claims for coverage against a medical review company are completely preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and because there is no split in authority regarding whether medical licensing claims are completely preempted by ERISA (James Hackney v. Allmed Healthcare Management Inc., No. 17-102, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3012)....