Mealey's (August 5, 2019, 2:23 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Montana small employers that were granted the right to proceed with state law claims against two health insurance companies after the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals found that the claims were not preempted by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act on July 22 waived their right to respond to a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by the insurers in the U.S. Supreme Court (Caring for Montanans, Inc., et al. v. The Depot, Inc., et al., No. 19-77, U.S. Sup.)....