Pannone v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

This is an action of assumpsit to recover disability benefits under a contract supplementary to a life insurance policy issued to the plaintiff by the defendant company. The case was tried in the Superior Court by a justice sitting without a jury and decision was rendered for the plaintiff in the sum of $500. The case is before us on defendant’s exceptions to the decision.

The defendant, an insurance corporation, issued to the plaintiff an endowment policy of insurance in the sum of $10,000. Attached to and forming a part of this policy is a supplementary contract, described as a “Disability…