Legal Opinion
Tetreault v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided October 6, 2014No. 13-2353PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BARRON, Circuit Judge.
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) governs employee benefit plans. 29 U.S.C. § 1001 et seq. Among other things, the statute permits beneficiaries to go to court to challenge their plan’s decision to deny or cut off their benefits. Id. § 1132(a)(1)(B). Before filing suit, however, beneficiaries must first use — or, as it is often put, “ex haust” — their plan’s procedures for making claims. Madera v. Marsh USA, Inc., 426 F.3d 56, 61 (1st Cir.2005). The main question for us concerns which document a benefit plan must use to set forth those…
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