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083803P.pdf 11/17/2009 Barbara Brown v. J.B. Hunt Transport Services
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 08-3803
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas - Little Rock
[PUBLISHED] [Riley, Author, with John R. Gibson and Murphy,
Circuit Judges]
Civil case - ERISA. The plan's failure to comply with its statutory duty
to provide Brown with a reasonable opportunity for a full and fair review
of the decision to terminate her long-term disability benefits excuses her
failure to exhaust her administrative remedies before bringing suit; the
appropriate remedy in the case is to remand the matter to the district
court with instructions to remand to the plan for an out-of-time appeal;
the district court correctly dismissed Brown's claim for penalties as
neither the plan nor her employer can be held liable under 29 U.S.C. Sec.
1132(c).