McKenzie v. Pacific Health & Life Insurance

Plaintiffs, Max and Debra McKenzie, appeal from a judgment dismissing Max’s claim for breach of a health insurance contract. They assign error to the trial court’s striking of allegations relating to damages and to breach of the duty of good faith and fair dealing. The trial court dismissed all claims made by Debra, and that ruling is not assigned as error. Accordingly, we affirm as to Debra. Our reference to “plaintiff’ is to Max.

Defendant issued a policy to plaintiff that insured him against major medical expenses v. to $1 million. The policy excluded coverage of expenses relating to…