Steele v. General American Life Insurance

The opinion of -the court was delivered by

Prager, J.:

This is an action to recover medical expense benefits under a group policy of health and accident insurance. The plaintiff-appellee is Robert Steele, Jr. He will be referred to in this opinion as plaintiff or Steele. The defendant-appellant is General American Life Insurance Company, Inc. We will refer to it as General American or the defendant.

The facts in this case as found by the district court were essentially as follows: General American issued a group health and accident insurance policy to Cherokee South Development Company, Inc. for…