Banks v. Paul Revere Life Insurance

RULING AND ORDER

CHATIGNY, District Judge.

This case presents the question whether an insurance company’s refusal to continue to pay benefits to an insured under a disability insurance policy on the ground that the insured is no longer entitled to benefits violates Conn.Gen.Stat. § 38a-816(12), a provision of the Connecticut Unfair Insurance Practices Act (CUIPA) prohibiting dis crimination based on physical disability (“subsection (12)”). The question arises in the context of a suit by an insured to collect disability benefits from his insurer. Plaintiff contends that defendant’s refusal to…