Legal Opinion

Ex Parte Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Ala.

Supreme Court of Alabama

Decided July 10, 1981No. 80-68PublishedCited by 5 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

We granted petitioner's request for writ of certiorari to the Court of Civil Appeals to review their decision on what we considered a material question of first impression in Alabama. That material question is whether the terminology "not medically necessary" which appears in the plaintiff's policy with the defendant Blue Cross-Shield of Alabama is terminology which is exclusively within the knowledge of expert witnesses (doctors) so that if such a witness is uncontradicted in his statement that it was not medically necessary for the plaintiff to be hospitalized, the case should not go to the…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Employers Ins. Co. of Ala., Inc. v. Jeff Gin Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1979
  2. Van Vactor v. Blue Cross AssociationAppellate Court of Illinois · 1977
  3. Alabama Power Co. v. WhiteSupreme Court of Alabama · 1979
  4. Huff v. Vulcan Life and Accident Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1968
  5. State Farm Fire and Cas. Co. v. ErwinSupreme Court of Alabama · 1981

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3Cited by5 opinions

  1. Sarchett v. Blue Shield of CaliforniaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1987
  2. Jefferson County v. SulzbySupreme Court of Alabama · 1985
  3. King v. WA Brown & Sons, Inc.Supreme Court of Alabama · 1991
  4. Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis v. SummersonAppellate Court of Illinois · 1991
  5. Sarchett v. Blue Shield of CaliforniaCalifornia Supreme Court · 1987

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