Decedent’s Daughter Asks High Court To Deny Review Of ERISA Beneficiary Dispute

Mealey's (May 16, 2018, 11:37 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A decedent’s daughter on May 7 asked the U.S. Supreme Court to refuse to review a life insurer’s petition challenging a lower court’s finding that a divorce decree suffices as a qualified domestic relations order that "clearly specifies" her as the beneficiary under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada v. Richard E. Jackson, et al., No. 17-1247, U.S. Sup.)....