Culotta v. Security Industrial Insurance

BOLIN, Judge.

Plaintiff, Joe E. Culotta, suffered a gun-shot wound at the hands of an unidentified assailant and was hospitalized for a period of six days. Following denial of his demands by defendant, Security Industrial Insurance Company, plaintiff filed suit seeking to recover $300 for his hospital expenses, plus penalties and attorney’s fees, under five policies of insurance issued to him by defendafit. Each policy provided a daily hospital benefit for hospital confinement necessitated by bodily injury caused by accidental means.

It was agreed the court should render judgment on the basis…