PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon veteran says an insurance company is wrong to use an “acts of war” exclusion to deny him short-term disability benefits because he argues the Iraq War was over by the time of his October 2008 deployment.
The Oregonian reports (http://bit.ly/yrvbvH ) 29-year-old Jerico McCoy has filed suit in a Portland federal court. McCoy says Iraq was a sovereign country allied with the United States when he arrived to join a psychological operations team.
McCoy says he suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder that forced him to quit work and school.
The insurance company, Aetna Inc., says disability benefits aren’t paid for conditions resulting from acts of war.
