8th Circuit Won’t Rehear Appeal Over Insurer’s Liability For Enrollment Problem

Mealey's (June 24, 2022, 12:28 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — Providing no explanation, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on June 21 denied a petition for rehearing by an insurer against which a panel upheld a grant of summary judgment in a suit over alleged mishandling of an enrollment for supplemental life insurance; in seeking rehearing, the insurer argued that the ruling is contrary to the circuit’s precedent in Kerns v. Benefit Trust Life Ins. Co....