Estate of Saffles v. Reliance Universal, Inc.

OPINION

PARROTT, Presiding Judge.

In this circuit court action Circuit Judge T. Edward Cole, sitting without a jury, dismissed the case as to Commonwealth Insurance Company but entered judgment in the amount of $28,000 in favor of Maggie Louise Saffles, Administratrix of the Estate of Glenn Thomas Saffles, against Reliance Universal, Inc. and Hermitage Concrete Pipe, Inc.

The grounds for the judgment are that the defendants breached a duty to Glenn Saffles in failing to advise him that he had a right to convert a group life insurance policy to an individual policy upon a change in his employment…