Cipa v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Chief Justice Maxey,

In this action of assumpsit on a policy of group insurance on the lives of employees of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, the question to be decided is whether or not plaintiff’s deceased husband who died on February 11, 1942, was at the time under the coverage of a group insurance policy executed by the defendant company.

Section 5 of the insurance contract provided as follows: “The insurance on any Employee insured hereunder shall cease automatically on the date of the termination of employment of such Employee. Cessation of active wort by an Employee…