Paul Shapiro, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Berkshire Life Insurance Company, Appellant-Cross-Appellee

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• denying motion to dismiss § 349 claim where insured alleged that defendant sold insurance it never intended to provide
• finding disabled dentist’s office administration work “incidental to his material and substantial duties as a full time dentist”
• selling insurance an insurer does not intend to provide may be deceptive under § 349
• selling insurance an insurer does not intend to provide may be deceptive under § 349
• affirming a district court’s ruling that the petitioner was occupied as a dentist, not as a medical administrator, where he spent over 90% of his own time seeing patients and administrative duties were peripheral to his dentistry duties
• finding insufficient allegations of deceptive conduct where plaintiff claimed that the defendant insurance company failed to perform a sufficient investigation of a disability claim before denying it, and stating, “an insurer’s denial of a claim is not deceptive simply because it is mistaken”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).