Insurance Company Asks High Court To Deny Petition In ERISA Employment Status Suit

Mealey's (October 28, 2019, 12:25 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should deny a petition for a writ of certiorari filed by a class of insurance agents who brought claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and are challenging the standard of review the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals applied to district court findings that they were misclassified as independent contractors because the correct standard was used and there is no circuit split, an insurance company, its subsidiaries, plans and administrative committees of the plans argue in an Oct. 25 opposition brief (Walid Jammal, et al. v. American Family Insurance Company, et al., No. 19-248, U.S. Sup.)....