Alabama Ass'n of Insurance Agents v. Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System

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• holding that, although the statutes do not specify an exhaustion requirement, the legislative his- tory and text of the statutes show that Congress intended to grant the courts authority to apply an exhaustion requirement in ERISA cases
• upholding dismissal of ERISA action for failure to exhaust administrative remedies
• observing exhaustion helps to \reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits under ERISA; to promote the consistent treatment of claims for benefits; to provide a nonadversarial method of claims settlement; and to minimize the costs of claims settlement for all concerned.\
• observing exhaustion helps to “reduce the number of frivolous lawsuits under ERISA; to promote the consistent treatment of claims for benefits; to provide a nonadversarial method of claims settlement; and to minimize the costs of claims settlement for all concerned.”
• \[P]rior fully considered actions by pension plan trustees interpreting their plans. . . may well assist the courts when they are called upon to resolve the controversies.\ (Emphasis added.)
• “[P]rior fully considered actions by pension plan trustees interpreting their plans and perhaps also further refining and defining the problem in given cases, may well assist the courts when they are called upon to resolve the controversies.”

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