United States Ninth Circuit

In an action based on the denial of benefits to plaintiff under two insurance policies that he purchased from defendant life insurer, judgment for defendant is affirmed 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."

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/04/2011
• Published 01/04/2011

Judges

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Steven J. Parsons, Von S. Heinz