Travelers Property Casualty Insurance Company of America v. Jet Midwest Technik, No. 17-2628 (8th Cir. 2018)
Annotate this CaseThe Eighth Circuit reversed the district court's dismissal of a breach-of-contract action to recover unpaid insurance premiums. The court held that the administrative procedures available to the insurer were too informal to require exhaustion under then-applicable Missouri law. Therefore, Travelers had no obligation to exhaust its administrative remedies before filing its lawsuit. The court remanded for further proceedings.
Court Description: Stras, Author, with Colloton and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] Civil case - Contracts. The administrative procedures available to the insurer before it commenced this breach-of-contract action to recover unpaid workers' compensation insurance premiums were too informal to require the insurer to exhaust them before bringing this suit, and the district court erred in dismissing this action for failure to exhaust.
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