Holmes v. Colorado Coalition for the Homeless Long Term Disability Plan

How courts have described this case

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• holding the “deemed-exhausted provision [of 29 C.F.R. 2560.503-1(l)] is limited to instances in which the notice and disclosure deficiencies actually denied the participant a reasonable review procedure.”
• suggesting that substantial compliance remains the applicable standard for non- deadline violations so long as the claimant has not been prejudiced by “deviations from ERISA’s notice requirements”
• assuming without deciding that an insurance plan’s summary plan description incorporated by reference a claim denial review procedure where it stated that a claimant would receive written notice if a claim was denied
• refusing to consider an appellant’s challenge when it was inadequately briefed on appeal
• collecting cases declining to consider arguments on appeal that were inadequately briefed
• declining to consider 8 arguments on appeal that were inadequately briefed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).