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THOMAS v. UNITED FIRE AND CAS. CO.

No. 87-850.

426 N.W.2d 396 (1988)

Charles A. THOMAS and Leesanne S. Thomas, Appellants, v. UNITED FIRE AND CASUALTY COMPANY, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

July 20, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Joseph Coleman, Jr., and William G. Enke of Mitchell, Coleman, Perkins & Enke, P.C., Ft. Dodge, for appellants.

James L. Kramer and Michael D. Love of Johnson, Erb, Latham, Gibb & Carlson, P.C., Ft. Dodge, for appellee.

Considered by McGIVERIN, C.J., and HARRIS, LARSON, LAVORATO, and ANDREASEN, JJ.

HARRIS, Justice.

An Iowa statute allows fire insurance policies to require that suits for fire losses be brought within twelve months of the loss. The trial court rejected this equal protection challenge to the statute and so do we.

Iowa Code section 515.138 (1985) lists various permissible standard provisions for fire policies, including the one challenged here:

No suit or action on this policy for the recovery of any claim shall be sustainable in...

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