Disability Claimant’s Suit Against Employer, Insurer Must Be Dismissed, Judge Says

Mealey's (July 13, 2020, 1:14 PM EDT) -- FORT SMITH, Ark. — An Arkansas federal judge on July 8 dismissed a disability claimant’s suit against her former employer and a disability insurer after determining that a release signed by the claimant prevented her from filing the suit against her employer and that the claimant’s failure to exhaust all her administrative remedies under the disability plan barred her from filing the suit against the disability insurer (Deborah Holmes v. The Prudential Insurance Company of America et al., No. 20-2060, W.D. Ark., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 119394)....