Henkel v. Pacific Employers Insurance

This is an action for damages on a contract of insurance. Plaintiff was engaged in a general contracting and engineering business and on April 7, 1951, the defendant issued to him a workmen’s compensation and employer’s liability policy wherein defendant agreed (as far as is material here) as follows:

“I. (t)o Insure the liability of this Employer to employees of this Employer and, in the event of their death, to their dependents, to pay, and the Company will promptly pay to any person entitled thereto, the compensation, including medical benefits, if any, for which this Employer is liable on…