Damm v. National Insurance Company of America

DOUGLAS B. HEEN, District Judge.

The defendant insurance company appeals, asking trial de novo from a judgment of the district court finding it liable for damages for unreasonable delay in acting upon an application for life insurance. The action was commenced by the applicant’s surviving wife, and the trial court, hearing the case without a jury, awarded damages in the face amount of the life insurance policy for which application had been made.

On July 25, 1967, Herbert Damm made application for a five-year level term insurance policy with the defendant insurance company. The insurance was…