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HOFLER v. AETNA US HEALTHCARE OF CALIFORNIA

No. 00-56401.

296 F.3d 764 (2002)

Lucy Diane HOFLER, individually and as successor in interest of deceased, Louis Hofler, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AETNA US HEALTHCARE OF CALIFORNIA, INC., fka Aetna Health Plans of California, Inc.; fka Aetna Health Management, Inc., a Delaware Corporation; Aetna U.S. Healthcare, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation; Aetna Services, Inc., a Connecticut Corporation; Aetna, Inc., a Connecticut Corporation, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 10, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kirk A. Patrick, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Los Angeles, CA, for the defendants-appellants.

Michael J. Bidart and Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich, Shernoff, Bidart & Darras, Claremont, CA, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: BROWNING, REINHARDT, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Louis Hofler died of esophageal cancer that metastasized to his brain. At the time of his death, he was a 75 year-old retired bus driver, insured by Aetna's Medicare health care maintenance organization ("HMO") plan. Appellee Lucy Diane Hofler is his widow. She sued his health care provider, Aetna, and his doctors1 in state court alleging that the defendants "withheld and denied Mr...

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