Goldstein v. Savings Bank Life Insurance

van Gestel, J.

This matter comes before the Court on a motion by the defendant, Savings Bank Life Insurance Company of Massachusetts (“SBLIC”), seeking summary judgment pursuant to Mass.R.Civ.P. Rule 56. The facts on which the parties are in agreement follow.

BACKGROUND

The Savings Bank Life Insurance system “had its origin in studies initiated in 1905 by Louis D. Brandéis, who himself called it ‘wage earners’ life insurance.’ ” Opinion of the Justices, 345 Mass. 780, 782 (1963). The system was established by the Legislature in 1907 to provide “safe, low cost life insurance” to the public.…