Court Opinion

ID: 9581213
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:12:39.007553+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:36:46.695802
License: Public Domain

White, J.,
concurring.
The Legislature, for reasons best known to itself, has seen fit to permit a licensed Nebraska insurance company to issue policies which deny persons claiming under those policies access to the courts of the State of Nebraska.
While legislation may indeed express the public policy of the state, to a greater extent the state Constitution does also.
Article I, § 13, of the Constitution of the State of Nebraska states: ‘‘All courts shall be open, and every person, for any injury done him in his lands, goods, person or reputation, shall have a remedy by due course of law, and justice administered without denial or delay.”
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 25-415 (Reissue 1979) excepts from the choice of forum provisions a number of categories set forth in the majority opinion. As I *433am not convinced that the statute, as written, denies meaningful access to a judicial forum (though not a Nebraska forum), I reluctantly concur.
I do, however, state unhesitatingly that absent the exceptions of the statute, the Model Uniform Choice of Forum Act would clearly violate our Constitution.
Hastings, J., joins in this concurrence.