Legal Opinion
Carter v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 3, 2002No. 00-CV-848, 00-CV-1536PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WASHINGTON, .Associate Judge:
The question presented in these consolidated cases is whether the District of Columbia’s Compulsory/No-Fault Motor Vehicle Insurance Act of 1982 1 (“No-Fault Act”), as amended, makes personal injury protection (“PIP”) benefits a secondary source of insurance coverage to a claimant’s primary health care coverage provided by a Health Maintenance Organization (“HMO”). In deciding this issue, we must first decide whether HMOs are “insurers” and/or providers of “insurance coverage” under D.C.Code § 31-2406(g) (2001). We conclude, that under D.C.Code § 31-2406(g), an…
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