Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Co. v. Iowa District Court for Woodbury County

McGIVERIN, Justice.

Plaintiff Mutual Service Casualty Insurance Company (hereafter Mutual) brings this certiorari action to review the defendant district court’s order directing Mutual to proceed to arbitration pursuant to an arbitration provision contained in an insurance policy between Mutual and George and Linda Kourpias. We sustain the writ of certiorari.

I. Background facts and proceedings. The facts appear as follows. On February 25, 1983, George and Linda Kourpias and their minor daughter Jessica were involved in an automobile accident with an allegedly uninsured motorist. At that time…