title: Judgment, 23 September 1987.
abstract: The Court held that a private insurance company must pay for the second and third attempts at in-vitro fertilization made by an insured couple.  It ruled that, although the insurance company must have regard to the community of insurance holders as a whole and in-vitro fertilization is not vitally necessary to health and well-being, nonetheless, payment for the two further in-vitro- fertilization procedures is not unreasonable.
mesh_terms: D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005306:Fertilization; D005376:Financial Management; D005860:Germany, West; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D007348:Insurance, Health; D007603:Jurisprudence; D012098:Reproduction; D012106:Research
keywords: Clinical Research; Court Decision; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Fertilization--legal aspects; Financial Activities; Germany, Federal Republic Of; Health Insurance--legal aspects; In Vitro; Reproduction; Research Methodology; Western Europe