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PARRA v. PACIFICARE OF ARIZONA, INC.

No. 11-16069.

715 F.3d 1146 (2013)

Guillermina PARRA; Terri Corrales; Francisco Parra; Jesus Parra, Plaintiffs-counter-defendants-Appellees, v. PACIFICARE OF ARIZONA, INC., an Arizona corporation, Defendant-counter-claimant-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed April 19, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John C. West (argued), Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck, LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendant-Counter-Claimant-Appellant.

John E. Osborne and William C. Bacon (argued), Goldberg & Osborne, Tucson, AZ, for Plaintiffs-Counter-Defendants-Appellees.

Stanley G. Feldman , Haralson, Miller, Pitt, Feldman & McAnally, P.L.C., Tucson, Steven J. Bruzonsky , Mesa, and David L. Abney , Knapp & Roberts, P.C., Scottsdale, AZ, for Amicus Curiae Arizona Association for Justice.

Opinion by Judge HURWITZ; Concurrence by Judge CALLAHAN.

OPINION

HURWITZ, Circuit Judge:

This case involves the Medicare Act, one of "the most completely impenetrable texts within human experience." Cooper Univ. Hosp. v. Sebelius, 636 F.3d 44, 45 (3d Cir.2010) (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). The issue is whether a private Medicare Advantage Organization ("MAO") plan can sue a plan participant's survivors, seeking...

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