United Services Automobile Association v. William J. Perry, Secretary of United States Department of Defense, and United States of America

The opinion originally issued in this case, 92 F.3d 295 (5th Cir.1996) (per curiam), is hereby withdrawn, and the following opinion is substituted for purposes of clarification:

In this ease of first impression, we are called upon to interpret the meaning of Congress’s 1990 amendment to 10 U.S.C. § 1095 (Supp.1995), which allows the military to be reimbursed by insurance carriers for medical expenses it incurs in treating soldiers whom the carriers insure. We determine that the term “no-fault insurance carrier,” as it appears in the statute, is ambiguous. We therefore defer to the…