Legal Opinion
Abraham Egert and Christine Kraft-Egert v. Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and Employee Benefit Plan of the Canteen Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 17, 1990No. 89-2091PublishedCited by 80 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CUDAHY, Circuit Judge.
Christine Kraft-Egert wants to bear a child; an ectopic pregnancy and occluded fallopian tube, however, have left her infertile. She has turned to modern medicine— specifically, to in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) —to allow her to do artificially what she cannot do naturally. Since she cannot afford the expensive procedure, she has asked her husband’s medical insurance carrier, which reimburses the company’s employees and their beneficiaries for services that treat “illness” (including pregnancy-related expenses), to cover the IVF treatments. But the carrier has refused to…
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