Wilson v. Travelers Insurance Co.

HODGES, Justice.

This appeal involves the refusal of The Travelers Insurance Company [Travelers], appellant, to pay for laetrile treatments to Helen Wilson, the appellee’s wife.

Helen Wilson was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer in July of 1976. She began cobalt therapy, a medically recognized cancer treatment. On August 9,1976, she and her husband intervened in the case of Rutherford v. United States, Case No. 75-0218-B in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, seeking an order enjoining the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] from any attempt to prevent…