Michigan Hospital Service v. Sharpe

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• holding that equitable subrogation not allowed for health insurance contract
• finding that Blue Cross could not use subrogation portions of the Michigan Insurance laws because Blue Cross’s contracts were not ones of insurance
• finding that a party who is primarily obligated cannot use equitable subrogation to recover from other parties
• finding that non-profit providing hospital services could not bring subrogation suit against subscriber to service plan
• “Subrogation is an equitable doctrine ... [that] appl[ies] whenever persons, other than mere volunteers, pay a debt or. demand which in equity and good conscience should have been satisfied by another.” (citation omitted)
• the result is dictated by basic subrogation principles, which provide that one who is primarily liable for a debt cannot be subrogated to the lender's rights under the note or mortgage securing the debt

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