Music v. United Insurance Co. of America

This is an action to recover disability benefits under an accident insurance policy issued by defendant insurance company to plaintiff.

The court sustained defendant’s challenge to the sufficiency of the evidence and plaintiff appeals from the judgment dismissing his action with prejudice.

June 27, 1951, plaintiff, a 54-year-old logger, secured the policy in question. The policy insured plaintiff

“ . . . against loss of life, limb, sight or time, sustained or commencing while this policy is in force, resulting directly and independently of all other causes from accidental bodily injuries…