6th Circuit Doesn’t Decide Preemption Question In Slayer Statute Ruling

(August 28, 2024, 8:32 AM EDT) -- CINCINNATI — Ruling around the Employee Retirement Income Security Act “preemption issue left open in” Egelhoff v. Egelhoff, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel affirmed summary judgment on the grounds that a man convicted of murdering his parents could not recover the proceeds of his mother’s insurance policies under either Tennessee or federal law....