Hollinger v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in Hollinger v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co., 36 Colo. App. 306, 541 P.2d 128 (1975).

Petitioner, Sherry Hollinger, beneficiary of a life insurance policy issued to her deceased husband, seeks reversal of a decision of the court of appeals which affirmed the trial court’s entry of a judgment in favor of Mutual notwithstanding the verdict. We affirm.

Beginning in 1971, the decedent, a military academy graduate, was employed by the respondent insurance company as a life insurance salesman trainee. The subject policy was…