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What Should an Employer Do If the Post Office Returns a COBRA Election Notice as Undeliverable?
Thomson Reuters / EBIA Link to more items from this source
[Guidance Overview]
July 31, 2025

"COBRA requires only that the plan administrator mail the notice to the qualified beneficiary's last-known address. But courts have applied 'inquiry notice' and 'fiduciary responsibility' theories to impute to plan administrators knowledge that a qualifying event has occurred, and those theories could be extended to a returned election notice when a plan administrator knows that a notice has not been received."  MORE >>

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