Mealey's (October 7, 2021, 2:03 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A district court erred in dismissing a disability claimant’s suit alleging that a disability insurer failed to exhaust all administrative remedies in violation of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act because the insurer’s decision to remand a claim to its claim department for reconsideration does not constitute a “benefit determination on review,” the U.S. Secretary of Labor says in an Oct. 5 amicus curiae brief filed in the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in support of the claimant’s appeal....