Mealey's (January 6, 2022, 10:17 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A disability insurer on Jan. 5 waived its right to respond to a disability claimant’s petition for writ of certiorari filed in the U.S. Supreme Court seeking a “uniform rule enforcing an ERISA plan’s choice of law and applying the chosen law to all plan participants” and a ruling that the Employee Retirement Income Security Act does not preempt state law prescribing de novo judicial review for challenged benefit determinations....