Health Care & Hospital Law
Mar. 19, 2011
Jury Awards Injured Vet $19 Million
A Los Angeles jury awarded more than $19 million in damages to a man who accused his insurer of unfairly ignoring his doctor's opinion to deny a claim as not medically necessary.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
LOS ANGELES - A jury awarded more than $19 million in damages Wednesday to a paraplegic military veteran who accused an insurance company of acting in bad faith for refusing to pay for a lengthy hospital stay.
Stonebridge Life Insurance decided that only 19 of the 109 days Thomas Nickerson received care in a hospital were medically necessary. That was contrary to the opinion of Nickerson's own ph...
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