Fuchs v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

On September 24, 1923, the defendant issued to plaintiff a policy of life insurance in the sum of $2,000. The policy contains total and permanent disability provisions under which the company agreed to waive the payment of premium and also pay ten dollars a month for each $1,000 of insurance under the policy. The pertinent provision thereof entitled the insured to these benefits upon proof that he has “ become totally and permanently disabled * * * so as to be prevented thereby from engaging in any occupation and performing any work for compensation or profit,”

*666Claiming to be totally and…