Van Dusen v. Interstate Business Men's Ass'n

Plaintiff, in 1917, was engaged in running a novelty store in Lowell. In October of that year he took a health and accident policy with defendant in which it agreed that in the event of sickness it would pay him the following sums:

“Loss by Disease:

Nonhouse Confinement — $10 a week for 10 weeks.

The insurance provided shall cover only in the event that the insured shall be compelled to refrain from performing any act of business, and be under the constant treatment and care of a regular physician, and during the uninterrupted period of such disability.

House Confinement — $25 a week for 52 weeks.