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192163P.pdf   08/28/2020  Avera McKennan  v.  Meadowvale Dairy Empl Benefit
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2163
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Wollman and Benton, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - ERISA. The claim that a plan participant assigned to 
   plaintiff was not properly exhausted; after Meadowvale Dairy rescinded 
   coverage to the employee, neither he nor an authorized representative 
   exhausted internal remedies to challenge the decision; as a result, the 
   employee never enjoyed a cause of action against the plan, and there was 
   no cause of action for plaintiff to receive from the now-deceased 
   employee.