Vincente Prieto v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation

OPINION

RESTANI, Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

Vincente Prieto (“Prieto”) appeals the district court’s grant of partial summary judgment and amended judgment entered in favor of Paul Revere Life Insurance Company (“Paul Revere”). We have jurisdiction under 28 U.S.C. §§ 1291 and 1294(1) (2000). For the reasons that follow, we affirm the district court’s grant of summary judgment to Paul Revere on Prieto’s bad faith and punitive damage claims. We reverse the district court’s sua sponte finding of waiver and remand with instructions to award Prieto residual benefits for the period of August 1996 to August…