Legal Opinion

Collister v. Nationwide Life Insurance

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Decided June 13, 1978No. 244PublishedCited by 212 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION

MANDERINO, Justice.

On or about September 24, 1972, appellant’s husband applied to appellee Nationwide Life insurance Company for life insurance in the amount of $10,000.00, with double indemnity for accidental death, plus $22,500.00 level term insurance. Appellee, through its agent, accepted $60.66 from appellant’s husband at the time of the application. This amount represented a two-month premium payment on the above described insurance. In exchange for this payment appellee’s agent gave appellant’s husband a “conditional receipt.”

On November 4, 1972, appellant’s husband was killed in…

2Cases cited19 opinions

  1. Brakeman v. Potomac Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1977
  2. Cooper v. Government Employees InsuranceSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1968
  3. Allen v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1965
  4. Bollinger v. National Fire InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1944
  5. Ransom v. Penn Mutual Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1954

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