United States Ninth Circuit

Defendant-insurance company did not abuse its discretion in denying plaintiff's claim for life insurance benefits for the death of her husband.

Appellate Information

• Argued 03/23/2006
• Decided 08/31/2005
• Published 08/31/2005

Judges

• Before:  Mary M. Schroeder, Chief Judge, and Alex Kozinski, Diarmuid F. O'Scannlain, Pamela Ann Rymer, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, Barry G. Silverman, Susan P. Graber, M. Margaret McKeown, Kim McLane Wardlaw, William A. Fletcher, Ronald M. Gould, Richard A. Paez, Johnnie B. Rawlinson, Jay S. Bybee, and Consuelo M. Callahan, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel Feinberg, Cassie Springer-Sullivan, Lewis, Feinberg, Renaker & Jackson, P.C., Oakland, California;  Craig Price, Griffith & Thornburgh, Santa Barbara, California, for the plaintiff-appellant., Jay E. Sushelsky, AARP Foundation Litigation, Washington, D.C.;  John Will Ongman, Barnes & Thornburg, LLP, Washington, D.C., for the amici curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• R. Daniel Lindahl, Bullivant Houser Bailey, Portland, Oregon;  Waldemar J. Pflepsen, Jr., Jorden Burt LLP, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellee.