Legal Opinion
Alvin Jones, Dolores Jones, James (Haim) Bicher, James (Haim) Bicher M.D., Inc. v. Laborers Health & Welfare Trust Fund
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 29, 1990No. 89-15677PublishedCited by 63 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FARRIS, Circuit Judge:
Plaintiffs appeal the district court’s grant of summary judgment against their claim that the Laborers Health & Welfare Trust Fund improperly denied them benefits. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Alvin Jones is a participant in an insurance plan that defendant Trust Fund provides. This dispute arose when the Trust Fund refused to pay for certain treatments for Jones’s wife, who was suffering from breast cancer. The Trust Fund denied payment for these treatments — a regimen of hyperthermia — because they were “not medically necessary.” The Trust Fund relied on the opinion of its…
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