Zayc v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Patterson,

The question for determination on this appeal is whether an insurance company is liable in an action ex; delicto for neglect or unreasonable delay in acting upon an application for insurance where but for such delay the application would have been approved and the insurance issued in time to have protected the applicant against a loss which occurred to his damage during the period of such unreasonable delay.

Appellant, John Zayc, administrator of the estate of Jacob Zayc, deceased, instituted a trespass action against the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance…