Mealey's (November 5, 2021, 3:26 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A life and accident plan, its sponsor and its insurer on Nov. 1 waived their right to respond to a beneficiary’s U.S. Supreme Court petition for a writ of certiorari on an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision that overturned a lower court’s ruling and upheld a denial of benefits under a “crime” exclusion on the basis that the insured was speeding and passing improperly....