Sarah Robyns v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company and Community Centers of Indianapolis, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• referring to suit filed before completion of administrative review process as a “classic case of jumping the gun”
• Robyns waived the futility argument because she “did not argue this point to the district court,” and in any event her argument was solely based on conjecture
• “The well-established rule in this Circuit is that a plaintiff waives the right to argue an issue on appeal if she fails to raise the issue before a lower court.”
• plaintiff claimed an administrative appeal would be futile because the defendant was predisposed to deny her claim; the court disagreed because the evidence was insufficient to show that the defendant’s review procedure wouldn’t root out any predisposition
• absence of neutral arbitrator not determinative of futility of administrative remedy

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).