Dickerson v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Opinion by

Arnold, J.,

Assumpsit was brought for accidental death benefits on ttvo insurance policies on the life of Joseph E. Dickerson, Jr. Defendant appeals from judgment on verdict for plaintiff.

The insured was born in 1920 and in 1938 became a hospital patient afflicted with an active, chronic Von Eecklinghausen’s Disease (multiple tumors in brain and elsewhere). From this he was blind, deaf and unable to walk. He could propel himself in a wheel chair. On the morning of April 7, 1940 this blind, deaf and helpless person was left unattended in his wheel chair in the hospital corridor…