5th Circuit Majority Vacates Dismissal Of ERISA Benefits Claim

Mealey's (March 30, 2021, 8:13 AM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals majority vacated a Louisiana district court’s dismissal of a benefits claim brought under the Employment Retirement Income Security Act in a March 12 unpublished opinion, holding that the beneficiary was excused from timely exhausting administrative remedies because the pension fund failed to meet ERISA requirements....