Walker v. American Family Mutual Insurance Co.

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing parties’ freedom to contract and requiring the court to weigh this right when considering whether to invalidate a contract on public policy grounds
• construing chapter 321A narrowly and finding “no legislative intent to require all motorists to have liability insurance”
• upholding identical exclusion in auto policy against claim that it violated public policy
• construing family exclusion to bar wrongful death action by insured's personal representative
• construing family exclusion to bar wrongful death action by insured’s personal representative
• contract contravening public policy will not be enforced; a contract is contrary to public policy if it tends to be injurious to the public or contrary to the public good

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).