Mealey's (March 4, 2020, 1:06 PM EST) -- PHOENIX — There was sufficient evidence to support a jury’s conclusion that two defendants in a suit alleging bad faith termination of disability benefits were engaged in a joint venture and to support a separate punitive damages award against one of the defendants, a Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled Feb. 27 in a partially divided unpublished opinion (Benjamin McClure v. Country Life Insurance Company, et al., No. 18-16661, 9th Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 6566)....