Szlapa v. National Travelers Life Co.

Plaintiffs are the beneficiaries under a life insurance policy applied for by the decedent, John F. Szlapa, III, with the defendant insurance corporation. Plaintiffs brought suit seeking damages in an amount equal to that of the face value of the proposed policy. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs in the amount of $10,000. Defendant corporation appeals, and we reverse.

John F. Szlapa, III, enlisted in the U. S. Navy while still in high school in 1968. He was stationed at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Atsugi, Japan, when agents of the defendant corporation solicited him to…