Erdman v. Great Northern Life Insurance

Plaintiff, William W. Erdman, took out a life and health insurance policy with the Great Northern Life Insurance Company, a Wisconsin corporation, defendant herein. It provided for an indemnity of $250 a month for the period during which insured was totally disabled by reason of bodily disease, subject, however, to certain printed conditions. Clause (b) of the policy affects the issue in this case and is as follows:

“(b) The health insurance under this policy shall not cover disease contracted, nor sickness nor disability sustained, in any part of the world except that part of the United…