6th Circ. Ruling Jeopardizes ERISA Exhaustion Defense

By Jenna Nguyen, Marlee Waxelbaum, Virginia Flynn and Chad Fuller ( April 16, 2020, 4:53 PM EDT) -- In a potentially impactful decision for Employee Retirement Income Security Act precedent, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Wallace v. Oakwood Healthcare Inc.[1] held that for a plan fiduciary to avail itself of the exhaustion of administrative remedies doctrine, its plan documents must, at minimum, detail the required internal appeal procedures....

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