Legal Opinion
Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company v. Holmes Murphy & Associates, Inc.
Supreme Court of Iowa
Decided May 17, 2013No. 12–0650PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HECHT, Justice.
A husband and wife applied for life insurance policies from Farm Bureau Life Insurance Company. The applicants later sued Farm Bureau alleging it negligently failed to notify them of their HIV-positive status. Farm Bureau settled the negligence claims, sued its insurers for indemnity, and sued its insurance broker for breach of contract and negligence in failing to provide timely notice to the insurers. We affirmed a summary judgment in favor of the insurers on the ground Farm Bureau had failed to give them timely notice of the applicants’ liability claims. Farm Bureau Life…
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