Dirgo v. Associated Hospitals Service, Inc.

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• holding that condition is manifest when it would be manifest to a person learned in medicine from symptoms or other physical conditions that the illness or disease exists
• under Iowa law, “symptoms may be present and may have progressed sufficiently that an illness is said to exist before it has been medically designated by its proper name”
• under Iowa law, where a claimant exhibits symptoms and has an illness before the effective date of coverage, the illness need not be diagnosed before it may be said to be a pre-existing condition

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