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NAT. ORG. FOR WOMEN v. MUT. OF OMAHA

No. 86-15.

531 A.2d 274 (1987)

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN, et al., Appellants, v. MUTUAL OF OMAHA INSURANCE CO., INC., Appellee. American Council of Life Insurance and the Health Insurance Association of America, Amici Curiae.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 18, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marsha Levick, with whom Jeffrey L. Braun, Jan G. Zager, Joshua Paul, and Emily J. Spitzer, New York City, were on the brief, for appellants.

Vincent H. Cohen, with whom Peter W. Tredick, Jean S. Moore, Washington, D.C., and Lawrence F. Harr, Omaha, Neb., were on the brief, for appellee.

Dennis H. Vaughn, Patrick W. Shea, Jack H. Blaine, Edward J. Zimmerman, Joseph W. Peel, and Karen A. Clifford, Washington, D.C., were on the brief for amici curiae.

Before BELSON and TERRY, Associate Judges, and NEBEKER, Associate Judge, Retired.

BELSON, Associate Judge:

The two individual appellants are women who purchased health insurance policies at rates higher than those charged men of the same age and medical history. Appellee Mutual of Omaha sold those policies to the individual appellants, who assert that by charging them the higher rates Mutual of Omaha violated the District of Columbia Human Rights Act, D.C.Code §§ 1-2501 to 1-2557 (1987). The National Organization for Women, a nationwide...

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