Disability Claimant Failed To Show Bone Marrow Program Acted As Agent For Insurer

Mealey's (February 8, 2023, 5:02 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge granted a disability insurer’s motion to dismiss a breach of contract and bad faith lawsuit and ordered that the claimant’s suit be closed after determining that the claimant, who sought disability benefits under a policy issued to a bone marrow donor program, failed to show in a second amended complaint that the program was acting as an agent for the disability insurer when his claim for benefits was denied....