Bolding v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

BRIGHTMIRE, Judge.

The sole issue presented for review in this small claims case is whether the trial court properly held that the plaintiff’s group health care policy covered the expense of air ambulance service, nursing care and ground transportation incurred in the interstate transfer of the critically ill insured from an Oklahoma hospital to the Scott-White Clinic in Texas.

We hold it did and affirm the judgment.

I

The operative facts are for the most part undisputed. On April 27, 1989, plaintiff Kathy G. Bolding was hospitalized at Memorial Hospital in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and was found to be…