MICHAEL EGAN, Plaintiff and Respondent,
v.
MUTUAL OF OMAHA INSURANCE COMPANY et al., Defendants and Appellants.
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August 14, 1979.
August 14, 1979.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
COUNSEL
Pettit, Evers & Martin, Joseph W. Rogers, Jr., Robert J. Heil, Ferguson, Hoffman, Henn & Mandel, Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin, Herman F. Selvin, Sheldon W. Presser, Peter C. Bronson, Poindexter & Doutre, Alfred B. Doutre and Robert A. Seligson for Defendants and Appellants.
Beardsley, Hufstedler & Kemble, Seth M. Hufstedler, Peter O. Israel, Charles A. O'Brien, Don B. Kates, Jr., O'Brien & Hallisey, Ropers, Majeski, Kohn, Bentley & Wagner, Michael J. Brady, Adams, Duque & Hazeltine, James S. Cline and Kilmer G. Casteel as Amici Curiae on behalf of Defendants and Appellants.
Hafif & Shernoff, Herbert Hafif, William M. Shernoff and Stephen L. Odgers for Plaintiff and Respondent.
William P. Camusi, Wylie A. Aitken, Leonard Sacks, Robert E. Cartwright. Robert G. Beloud, LeRoy Hersh, David B. Baum, Stephen I. Zetterberg, Ned Good, Arne Werchick, Sanford M. Gage and Roger H. Hedrick as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.
Supreme Court of California.
OPINION
MOSK, J.
Defendants appeal from a judgment awarding compensatory and punitive damages for breach of an insurance contract. We conclude the judgment should be affirmed insofar as it awards compensatory damages against defendant Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company (Mutual) but reversed in all other respects.
In 1962, plaintiff purchased a health and disability insurance policy...
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