Administrator Required To Disclose Limitations Period In Denial Letter, Panel Says

Mealey's (August 31, 2015, 12:13 PM EDT) -- PHILADELPHIA — A plan administrator’s failure to notify a claimant in its denial letter of the health plan’s one-year limitations period for filing suit is a violation of the requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act, and as a result, New Jersey’s six-year limitations period must be applied to the claimant’s suit, the Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said Aug. 26 in vacating a District Court’s finding that the claimant’s suit was time-barred (Dr. Neville M. Mirza M.D. et al. v. Insurance Administrator of America Inc. et al., No. 13-3535, 3rd Cir.; 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 15068)....