U.S. Supreme Court Won’t Consider Whether Negligence Claim Is Preempted By ERISA

Mealey's (October 2, 2017, 11:05 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 2 denied a disability claimant’s petition for writ of certiorari of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ decision that a negligence claim is completely preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Samantha Milby v. MCMC LLC, No. 16-1409, U.S. Sup.)....