Bakewell v. Missouri State Employees' Retirement System

This appeal arises from the granting of summary judgment to the defendant, the Missouri State Employees’ Retirement System (MOSERS), after both parties had moved for summary judgment. The case involves whether a state employee who was medically insured under the state plan, § 104.310 1 et seq., but who then drops her individual coverage, is entitled to be later covered either in her own right or as a dependent of her husband (now a state employee in an agency covered by MOS-ERS), without providing a satisfactory statement of health.

Defendant MOSERS is a body corporate and an instrumentality…