Respondent To High Court: Egelhoff Forecloses Estate’s Claim In Preemption Row

Mealey's (November 10, 2022, 3:16 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Urging the U.S. Supreme Court to deny review in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act preemption dispute over life insurance plan proceeds, an ex-spouse argues in a Nov. 10 respondent brief that the petitioner wrongly “conflates distinct types of state-law challenges” and that Egelhoff v. Egelhoff forecloses the petitioner’s claim by “holding that ERISA preempts divorce revocation statutes as applied to ERISA plan assets no matter the distribution status of those assets.”...