KIRKPATRICK v. MERIT BEHAVIORAL CARE CORP.

No. 2:97-CV-203.

99 F.Supp.2d 458 (2000)

Mary G. KIRKPATRICK, Esq., Legal Guardian for Jane Doe I, and Mary Kehoe, Esq., Legal Guardian for Jane Doe II, Plaintiffs, v. MERIT BEHAVIORAL CARE CORPORATION, dba Merit Behavioral Care Systems Corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, D. Vermont.

May 19, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Manchester, Manchester Law Offices, P.C., Burlington, VT, Bryant Welch, Bryant L. Welch, J.D., Ph.D. & Associates, Potomac, MD, for Plaintiffs.

Peter B. Joslin, Jeffry W. White, Theriault & Joslin, Montpelier, VT, Jeffrey J. Bouslog, Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly LLP, St. Paul, MN, for Defendant.


ORDER AND OPINION

SESSIONS, District Judge.

On June 27, 1997 Mary Kirkpatrick, Esq. and Mary Kehoe, Esq. brought this civil action on behalf of two teenage girls, Plaintiffs Jane Doe I and Jane Doe II, against Defendant Merit Behavioral Care Corporation ("Merit") for first party bad faith denial of medical insurance benefits.

On December 29, 1999 Merit filed a Motion to Dismiss Plaintiffs' claims for failure to establish, as a matter of law...

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