Judge: Exhaustion Wasn’t Required For Fiduciary Breach Claim In Disability Case

( December 15, 2025, 12:14 PM EST) -- PHOENIX — Saying that a claim that an employer “breached its fiduciary duty by failing to inform” a disability claimant “of the consequences to his benefits of becoming a part-time employee . . . is not a disguised claim for benefits even if it results in a monetary award,” an Arizona federal judge declined to grant the employer summary judgment for failure to exhaust administrative remedies as to that claim....