Slingsby v. Metropolitan Insurance

This is a Dist/Mun. Cts. R A D. A, Rule 8A appeal by the plaintiff of the allowance of a Mass. R Civ. R, Rule 12(b)(6), motion to dismiss this action.

The complaint indicates that in the 1970s, an agent of defendant Metropolitan Insurance Company (“Metropolitan”) sold the plaintiff three “whole life” insurance policies, each in the amount of $6,000.00. In May of 1985, as a result of conversations with another Metropolitan agent, the plaintiff surrendered those policies and purchased a $75,000.00 “Flexible Premium” life insurance policy. The plaintiff seeks recovery in this action for…