Hughes v. Blue Cross of Northern California

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• upholding award of punitive damages where denial of claim was “product of ... fragmentary medical records, a cursory review of the records, ... [a] disclaimer of any obligation to investigate, [and] the use of a standard ... at variance with community standards”
• punitive damages may be predicated on \intent to harm or a conscious disregard of another’s rights\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).