United States Third Circuit
Mirza v. Insurance Administrator of America, Inc., 13-3535
In an ERISA action involving a plan that contained a one-year deadline for filing a civil action, the district court's dismissal of the action is vacated where plan administrators must inform claimants of plan-imposed deadlines for judicial review, in their notifications denying benefits, and the appropriate remedy for this regulatory violation is to set aside the plan's time limit and apply the limitations period from the most analogous state-law cause of action - here, New Jersey's six-year deadline for breach of contract claims.
Appellate Information
- Decided 08/26/2015
- Published 08/26/2015
Judges
- Fuentes
Court
- United States Third Circuit