DERAMUS v. DONOVAN, LEISURE, NEWTON

No. 00-CV-1679.

905 A.2d 164 (2006)

Jody DERAMUS, Appellant v. DONOVAN, LEISURE, NEWTON & IRVINE, et al., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 27, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W.O. Dillard, Jackson MS, of the Mississippi Bar, pro hac vice, and J. Christopher Ide, Alexandria, VA were on the brief for appellant.

Paul Terrence O'Grady was on the brief for appellee.

Before RUIZ, Associate Judge, and TERRY and SCHWELB, Senior Judges.


TERRY, Senior Judge:

After the death of her husband Frank Deramus in 1991, appellant Jody Deramus filed suit in federal court against Jackson National Life Insurance Company ("Jackson National") for failing to disclose that her husband had tested positive for the human immunodeficiency virus ("HIV") during a medical examination administered through the company three years earlier.1 Appellant retained a law firm, appellee Donovan, Leisure...

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