Aetna Life Insurance Company v. Deckard

REYNOLDS, Justice.

The appellate issue is whether the Kill-gore Children’s Psychiatric Center & Hospital in Amarillo is a “hospital” as defined in the insurance policy under which hospital benefits were sought. In response to the one issue submitted, the trial court jury-found that the institution was a hospital within the meaning of the policy definition, and judgment was entered accordingly. We hold that the definitive hospital requirements of the policy were not met. Reversed and rendered.

Aetna Life Insurance Company issued its group hospital expense benefit policy to D. T. Deckard, whose…