WILLIAM C. BROWN CO. v. GENERAL AMERICAN

No. 89-54.

450 N.W.2d 867 (1990)

WILLIAM C. BROWN COMPANY, Publisher's Employees' Medical Plan Trust, Robert W. Chesterman, Trustee, Appellees, v. GENERAL AMERICAN LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Appellant, and First National Bank of Dubuque, Iowa, Conservator for Cynthia Nichols, Defendant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

Rehearing Denied February 16, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Breitbach of Reynolds & Kenline, Dubuque, for appellant.

James M. Heckmann of Bauer & Heckmann, P.C., Dubuque, for appellees.

Considered by CARTER, P.J., and LAVORATO, NEUMAN, SNELL, and ANDREASEN, JJ.


LAVORATO, Justice.

Insurance companies are increasingly using so-called "other insurance" provisions to limit or eliminate their liability if the insured has other insurance. In this case a claimant was covered as a dependent under her husband's employee group health plan. The claimant was also insured under an individual policy, which was issued to her after she exercised a conversion privilege in her own employee group health plan. The husband's plan had an "other...

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