WATTS v. BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC.

No. 02-13230.

316 F.3d 1203 (2002)

Gloria WATTS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. BELLSOUTH TELECOMMUNICATIONS, INC., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

January 3, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Lee Cleveland, Cleveland & Cleveland, Birmingham, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

James R. Glenister, BellSouth Corporation, Atlanta, GA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before CARNES, HULL and ALARCON, Circuit Judges.


CARNES, Circuit Judge:

We have held a number of times that a claimant's failure to exhaust the administrative remedies that an ERISA plan provides for challenging the denial of a benefits claim ordinarily bars her from pursuing that claim in court. E.g., Counts v. Am. Gen. Life & Accident Ins. Co., 111 F.3d 105, 108 (11th Cir.1997). We have never decided the issue presented in this case, however, which is whether that bar...

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