No. 19-242
Juanita Nichols v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Response Waived
Experienced Counsel
Tags: circuit-split disability-benefits disability-insurance erisa erisa-disability-insurance insurance-interpretation job-duties long-term-disability occupation-definition regular-occupation statutory-interpretation
Latest Conference:
2019-10-01
Question Presented (from Petition)
Whether "regular occupation" refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's "actual job duties"—"the usual work that the insured is actually performing immediately before the onset of disability."
Question Presented (AI Summary)
Whether 'regular occupation' refers to a general category of employment in a broad and generic sense, or instead refers to a claimant's 'actual job duties—the usual work that the insured is actually performing immediately before the onset of disability"
Docket Entries
2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-08-26
Waiver of right of respondent Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company to respond filed.
2019-08-21
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due September 23, 2019)
Attorneys
Juanita Nichols
Daniel L. Geyser — Geyser P.C., Petitioner
Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company
Joshua Bachrach — Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP, Respondent