Claim regulations in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act impose deadlines on claimants and plan administrators to submit claims and render claim decisions. Strict deadlines also apply to claim appeals.Claimants are allowed up to 180 days to submit appeals from denials of disability benefit claims, and if a claimant submits an appeal even a few days late, the plan administrator can reject the appeal as untimely, according to Edwards v. Briggs & Stratton Retirement Plan, 639 F.3d 355, 360 (7th Cir. 2011).(Full …