Legal Opinion
Indiana Funeral Directors Insurance Trust v. Trustmark Insurance Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 17, 2003No. 03-1868PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ILANA DIAMOND ROVNER, Circuit Judge.
The Indiana Funeral Directors Insurance Trust (“IFIT”) is an Indiana trust formed by several small funeral directors to sponsor a self-funded employee welfare benefit plan. After purchasing insurance from other providers, IFIT eventually bought a policy from Trustmark Insurance Corporation (“Trustmark”), which agreed to reimburse IFIT for medical expenses that exceeded a designated “stop loss” amount. IFIT brought this suit against Trustmark in federal district court, claiming that Trustmark failed to provide indemnification as required by the policy. A…
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