( May 3, 2024, 8:24 AM EDT) -- FRESNO, Calif. — A California federal magistrate judge awarded a disability insurer more than $11,000 in costs that the insurer incurred in successfully defending a breach of contract and bad faith suit lodged against it by an oral surgeon who stopped working to reduce the risk of contracting COVID-19 and suffering complications from the virus based on his comorbid conditions of asthma and hypertension....