Cecilia Nichols v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America, Docket No. 04-1445-Cv

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• noting that an argument not made to the district court may not be made on appeal
• declining to apply substantial compliance doctrine when the defendant “failed to comply in any reasonable respect with the regulatory deadlines,” “did not even acknowledge the request for an appeal until after the deadline had expired, and had not rendered any decision at the time of the suit”
• insurer’s failure to “adhere literally to the regulatory deadlines renders the claimant’s administrative remedies exhausted by operation of law and consequently permits the claimant to seek review in the federal courts without further delay”
• noting the “administrator had the burden of proving discretion”
• “[We] may give deferential review only to actual exercises of discretion.”
• “[We] may give deferential review only to actual exercises of discretion.”

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