Case Name: Philip A. SELTZER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PAUL REVERE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Unum Group, fka UnumProvident Corporation, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2012-07-18
Citations: 478 F. App'x 455
Docket Number: No. 11-15046
Parties: Philip A. SELTZER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PAUL REVERE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Unum Group, fka UnumProvident Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: REINHARDT, CLIFTON, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 478
Pages: 455–456

Head Matter:
Philip A. SELTZER, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PAUL REVERE LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY and Unum Group, fka UnumProvident Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 11-15046.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted May 14, 2012.
Filed July 18, 2012.
Steven C. Dawson, Esquire, Steven A. Gruenemeier, Esquire, Anita Rosenthal, Esquire, Dawson & Rosenthal, PC, Phoenix, AZ, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Ann-Martha Andrews, Esquire, Stephen M. Bressler, Esquire, Partner, Kristina N. Holmstrom, Esquire, Lewis and Roca LLP, Phoenix, AZ, for Defendants-Appel-lees.
Before: REINHARDT, CLIFTON, and N.R. SMITH, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
MEMORANDUM
We address Seltzer's primary claim for lifetime benefits under the "accident" provision of his policy in a contemporaneously-filed order certifying a question of law to the Arizona Supreme Court. In this memorandum disposition, we affirm summary judgment as to Seltzer's alternate theory that he is entitled to lifetime benefits under the policy amendment pertaining to "irrecoverable loss of use of both hands."
Seltzer waived this theory by failing to plead it in his complaint. Seltzer alleged that he was entitled to lifetime benefits "[bjecause plaintiffs injury occurred as the result of accident." He did not allege that he was entitled to such benefits because he lost of use of both hands, and did not refer to the loss of use provision. He mentioned that alternate theory for the first time in his opposition to Paul Revere's motion for summary judgment, and he never moved to amend his complaint. Accordingly, we affirm the district court's entry of summary judgment as to Seltzer's loss of use provision-based contract and bad faith claims.
PARTIALLY AFFIRMED.
This disposition is not appropriate for publication and is not precedent except as provided by 9th Cir. R. 36-3.