Caulfield v. Aetna Life Insurance

Opinion by

Cunningham, J.,

Sarah Caulfield instituted this action in assumpsit on March 20, 1939, against the Aetna Life Insurance Company, seeking to recover the sum of $1000, as total and permanent disability benefits, upon a certificate issued to her by the defendant company under a policy of group insurance covering the subscribing employees of the Friends Hospital, in Philadelphia. Under the heading “Permanent Total Disability Benefit,” the certificate reads: “Upon receipt at the Home Office of the Aetna Life Insurance Company of satisfactory evidence that the employee, while insured…