Action Based on Denial of Insurance Benefits

In Fier v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am., No. 09-17520, an action based on the denial of benefits to plaintiff under two insurance policies that he purchased from defendant life insurer, the court affirmed judgment for defendant where 1) the policy unambiguously served to terminate “disability benefits” at the time an insured person earned greater than eighty percent of his pre-disability earnings; and 2) the terms “dismemberment by severance” were unambiguous and required “actual, physical separation.”

 

Related Resources

  • Read the Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Fier v. Unum Life Ins. Co. of Am., No. 09-17520

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