Insurer To High Court: Resolve Circuit Split Over ERISA Contribution, Indemnity

Mealey's (December 15, 2021, 2:59 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Arguing that a ruling that it cannot seek contribution and indemnity from an employer that it alleges was a co-fiduciary of a life insurance policy offered through an employee welfare benefit plan is wrong and “entrenches a split” in which the Eighth and Ninth circuit courts of appeals conflict with the Second and Seventh circuits, an insurer on Dec. 7 petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a grant of certiorari....