Court Opinion

ID: 9642536
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 18:01:46.96916+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:49.424373
License: Public Domain

On Petition for Rehearing.
PER CURIAM.
In the original briefs in this case, and on the argument before this court, no reference was made by either party to any Regulation respecting a denial of claims for insurance, or a disagreement between the Bureau and the insured in relation to such claims. In the opinion, we referred to General Order No. 387, promulgated June 6, 1929, which delegates authority to regional managers to effect final denial of claims for insurance, and stated that, so far as we were advised, authority to effect such denial was prior to that time vested in the Director of the Bureau alone. Upon rehearing, our attention has been directed to certain regulations which did confer authority on rating boards to pass upon claims for insurance, with a right of appeal from an adverse decision. Whether a denial by a rating board, without appeal, can be made the basis for an action in the federal courts, or whether it was the intent of Congress to require parties claiming insurance to first exhaust their remedy before the executive department before resorting to the courts, we need not inquire, because it is only too manifest that, whatever the power or jurisdiction of the rating board may have been, the informal conversation set forth in the original opinion, between the insured and a single member of such board, could under no circumstances be construed as a denial of the claim for insurance by a board consisting of three members, two of whom probably never heard of the claim in suit.
The petition for rehearing is therefore denied.