Vandenberg v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Coneord, J. A. D.

Plaintiff recovered against the defendant in the Law Division as beneficiary under a group *3life insurance policy. The insured was John H. Savoyno, a merchant seaman, who died February 2, 1955. The insurance policy was an agreement dated January 14, 1951 between the defendant and Trustees of the NMU Pension and Welfare Plan, New York, New York, entered into by the latter as a result of a collective bargaining agreement between National Maritime Union of America, CIO, and various employers of merchant seamen for whom the union is…