Nelson v. Great Northern Life Insurance

This is an action to recover total disability benefits under an insurance policy issued by the defendant, May 27, 1926. The policy schedules the indemnities in two classes. Part “A” provides for certain specific losses, one of which is the loss of a hand dismembered by severance “at or above wrist.” Part “B” provides a monthly in demnity of $100 for partial or total disability. The following provision should be noted:

“No payment of monthly indemnity will be made in case of any loss enumerated in Part A.”

At the time the policy was issued, the plaintiff was engaged in the automobile repair…