In this 2023 ERISA case, a participant in an employee benefit plan governed by ERISA was not required to exhaust administrative remedies before challenging a denial of benefits in court when the written plan documents made no mention of any review process or administrative remedies that could be exhausted.
The plain language of the administrator’s intentionally self-inflicted injury exclusion did not apply to unintended injuries like the participant’s husband’s heroin overdose. The administrator’s denial of the participant’s claim for accidental death benefits based on that exclusion was erroneous. Judgment of the lower court was affirmed.
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