Lisa Gayle v. United Parcel Service, Incorporated Flexible Benefits Plan-United Parcel Service Long Term Disability Plan

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• holding that exhaustion of plan’s remedies is “a prerequisite to an ERISA action for denial of benefits”
• recognizing equitable tolling allows exceptions to the strict enforcement of deadlines, but rejecting argument that it should be applied to excuse untimely ERISA appeal when the claimant fit none of the established justifica- tions for equitable tolling
• finding “that attorney negligence—including allowing a client’s case to fall through the cracks— is [not] ... an ‘extraordinary circumstance’” justifying equitable tolling”
• explaining when dismissal with prejudice is appropriate for ERISA actions filed prior to administrative exhaustion
• rejecting the argument that her attorney’s negligence justified equitable tolling of her claim
• “The law has always, and necessarily, held people responsible for innocent mistakes.”

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