United States Second Circuit

An employee benefit plan participant is excused, under 29 C.F.R. section 2560.503-1(l), from exhausting the administrative remedies of a claims procedure that was adopted by his plan only after he had already brought an ERISA action to recover benefits.

Appellate Information

• Decided 06/27/2006
• Published 06/27/2006

Judges

• CALABRESI, Circuit Judge., Before CALABRESI and STRAUB, Circuit Judges, and DRONEY, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Karen M. Wahle (Khuong G. Phan, on the brief), O'Melveny & Myers LLP, Washington, D.C., for Plaintiff-Appellant., W. Iris Barber, Senior Trial Attorney (Howard M. Radzely, Solicitor of Labor, Timothy D. Hauser, Associate Solicitor, Nathaniel I. Spiller, Associate Deputy Solicitor for Supreme Court Litigation and Appellate Advice, and Karen L. Handorf, Counsel for Appellate and Special Litigation, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of the United States Department of Labor, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant., Jay E. Sushelsky, AARP Foundation Litigation (Melvin R. Radowitz, AARP, on the brief), for Amicus Curiae AARP, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John J. Myers, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, Pittsburgh, Pa., for Defendants-Appellees.