Zappone v. Liberty Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that exhaustion requirements depend upon extent of administrative remedies afforded by statute
• stating that there is a “presumption that the administrative remedy is intended to be primary, and ... a claimant cannot maintain the alternative judicial action without first invoking and exhausting the administrative remedy”
• explaining that where administrative remedies are the primary remedies, the plaintiff must first exhaust the administrative remedies and seek judicial review of an adverse administrative decision before proceeding with alternative judicial remedies
• acknowledging “that an agency’s interpretation of the statute which it administers” and its “interpretation that the remedy before the agency was not intended to be primary[,]” is entitled to weight
• permitting relation back of amendment to substitute corporation for corporation’s sole shareholder when amendment “refined and clarified the allegations of the initial complaint,” which otherwise remained the same
• finding the Insurance Commissioner’s expertise was irrelevant to the judicial cause of action

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