Disability Plan Is Ambiguous As To Exhaustion Requirement, Federal Judge Says

(September 7, 2018, 10:38 AM EDT) -- BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — A Connecticut federal judge on Aug. 28 denied a disability insurer’s motion to dismiss after determining that the disability plan does not include an express exhaustion provision and that it is possible for a plan participant to interpret the plan as not requiring exhaustion prior to filing suit (Annuziata Germana, et al. v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., No. 16-1611, D. Conn., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 146074)....