David Allen Hendricks v. Central Reserve Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “[w]hile the components of the treatment proposed are fairly well known, ... the proposed treatment was experimental or investigative”
• observing that credibility determinations are “best committed to the district court”
• finding HDC/PSCR to be experimental where plaintiff was the first patient in state to receive the treatment for small cell lung cancer
• applying rules of contract interpretation to benefit plan provision in ERISA lawsuit
• \An appellate court should be especially reluctant to set aside a finding based on the trial court's evaluation of conflicting expert testimony.\
• consent form stated that “the treatment may not help [the plaintiff] and that his only benefit may be contributing to the ‘advancement of science.’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).