Disability Insurer Seeks High Court’s Review Of 2nd Circuit’s Offset Ruling

(September 29, 2017, 9:24 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals erred in finding that New York law bars the offset of disability benefits when a claim for personal injuries is settled because the decision conflicts with rulings in other circuits and because the New York law is preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, a disability insurer argues in a Sept. 19 petition for writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court (Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. Salvatore Arnone, No. 17-416, U.S. Sup., 2017 U.S. S. Ct. Briefs LEXIS 3637)....