Comcast Worker’s ERISA Case Not Worth SCOTUS Look, Insurer Says

Liberty Life Assurance Co. of Boston advised the U.S. Supreme Court to skip a case involving choice-of-law provisions in disability benefit plans, telling the justices that the circuit courts agree that the provisions can be enforced in most cases.

The case, filed by a Comcast Corp. employee whose disability benefit plan Liberty administered, doesn’t merit Supreme Court review because it involves no meaningful circuit split and because the current state of the law “fully promotes” the Employee Retirement Income Security Act’s goals of efficiency and predictability, Liberty said in a brief filed Thursday.

Comcast employee Michael Ellis wants the ...