Benefit Life Insurance Co. v. Mizell

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

TOM B. RAMEY, Jr., Chief Justice.

We grant Benefit Life’s Motion for Rehearing and substitute the following in place of the original opinion dated March 31,1999:

This appeal presents the insurance coverage question of whether Bobby Mizell’s (“Mizell”) illness was manifest more than 30 days after the effective date of the major medical policy issued to him by Benefit Life Insurance Company (“Benefit Life”). No claim is urged that the illness pre-existed the effective date of the policy. After a jury verdict favorable to Mizell, the trial court rendered judgment in…