Bartlett v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This case is before us on the defendant’s petition for certiorari seeking review of a Superior Court order granting the plaintiff’s motion to compel production of the defendant insurance company’s claim file. The plaintiff alleged that the defendant both breached its duty under a contract of life insurance and acted in bad faith by denying liability for accidental death benefits under the policy in which the plaintiff was named as sole beneficiary. We quash the order of the Superior Court.

On June 24, 1984, Paul Anjoorian, plaintiff’s father, fell on the sidewalk in front…