Reuss v. Time Insurance Company

Banke, Chief Judge.

The appellant filed this suit to recover benefits allegedly due him under a policy of health insurance issued by the appellee, Time Insurance Compány. The appeal is from an order granting summary judgment to Time and denying summary judgment to the appellant.

In 1976, the appellant elected to undergo a sterilization procedure known as a vasectomy. The health insurance policy at issue in this case took effect in March of 1983. In the summer of 1984, while the policy was still in force, the appellant underwent a vasovasotomy, which is a surgical procedure designed to reverse a…