Legal Opinion

Hines v. New England Casualty Co.

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided October 11, 1916PublishedCited by 16 opinions

Appeal by defendant from Connor, J., at February Term, 1916, of FRANKLIN.

1Opinion of the Court

BROWN, J., dissenting; WALKER, J., concurring in dissent. This is an action to recover on a health insurance policy which contained promised indemnity for partial disability; (226) confinement to the house, accompanied by disability, and confinement in a hospital, accompanied by disability. Each of these was at a different rate, and the claims made under the three classes of indemnity aggregated $382.14.

The defense was that the insured had a disease at the time of application which he did not disclose; and that the defendant was not liable under the indemnity either for confinement at the…

2Cited by16 opinions

  1. Bankson v. Mutual Ben. Health & Accident Ass'nSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1945
  2. Franklin Life Ins. Co. v. LewisAlabama Court of Appeals · 1951
  3. Mutual Benefit Health & Accident Ass'n v. MilderNebraska Supreme Court · 1950
  4. Wells v. Jefferson Standard Life InsuranceSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1937
  5. Jeffress v. New York Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1935

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