Disability Claimant Seeks High Court Review On Meaning Of ‘Regular Occupation’

(September 9, 2019, 1:01 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court should review the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling in favor of a disability insurer on the insurer’s interpretation of the term “regular occupation” to resolve the conflict among circuit courts regarding the proper interpretation of the term, a disability claimant asserts in an Aug. 21 petition for writ of certiorari  (Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., No. 19-242, U.S. Sup.)....