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- Title: Wilson v. Travelers Ins. Co.
- Author : In the Court of Appeals of the State of Oregon
- Release Date : January 22, 1980
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 58 KB
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2 Helen Wilson was diagnosed as having incurable lung cancer in July of 1976. She began cobalt therapy, a medically recognized cancer treatment. On August 9, 1976, she and her husband intervened in the case of Rutherford v. United States, Case No. 75-0218-B in the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, seeking an order enjoining the Food and Drug Administration [FDA] from any attempt to prevent her from obtaining laetrile for her personal use. The court issued an order August 12, 1976, prohibiting any administrative or criminal action against her, the attending physician, or any hospital using laetrile for her treatment. Laetrile treatments were received by the patient, and insurance claims were submitted under the Travelers policy. Although the company paid all other covered medical expenses under the policy, it refused to pay for laetrile treatments. The insured initiated suit to recover on the policy. Subsequently, both parties filed motions for summary judgment and the insureds motion was sustained.