Legal Opinion
Edwards v. Briggs & Stratton Retirement Plan
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 29, 2011No. 09-2326PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, District Judge. *
I. Introduction
The issue presented by this appeal, which arises out of a suit brought by Plaintiff-Appellant Augusta Edwards against Defendant-Appellee Briggs & Stratton Retirement Plan (“the Plan”) for benefits due under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (“ERISA”), 29 U.S.C. §§ 1001 et seq., is straightforward: whether the Plan should have excused the fact that Edwards’s administrative appeal from a denial of her claim for disability benefits by the Plan was approximately eleven days late. The issue concerns, of course, whether Edwards exhausted her…
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