COLLINS v. BLUE CROSS OF VIRGINIA


193 S.E.2d 782 (1973)

Geraldine Simmons COLLINS v. BLUE CROSS OF VIRGINIA and Blue Shield of Virginia. BLUE CROSS OF VIRGINIA and Blue Shield of Virginia v. Geraldine Simmons COLLINS.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

January 15, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Brodnax Haskins, Richmond, for Geraldine Simmons Collins.

Henry H. McVey, III, Richmond (McGuire, Woods & Battle, Richmond, on brief), for Blue Cross of Virginia and Blue Shield of Virginia.

Before SNEAD, C. J., and I'ANSON, HARRISON, COCHRAN, HARMAN and POFF, JJ.


COCHRAN, Justice.

The question for determination in these appeals is whether Blue Cross of Virginia and Blue Shield of Virginia may recover from Geraldine Simmons Collins, a participant under a group contract, sums expended by Blue Cross for hospital services and by Blue Shield for medical services for which she has been paid by a third-party tortfeasor.

On May 19, 1969, Mrs. Collins, an employee of E. I. duPont deNemours and Company, Incorporated, was injured...

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