Riley v. Life & Casualty Ins. Co. of Tenn.

This is a suit on an industrial insurance policy. Plaintiff claims eleven weeks’ sick benefit at the rate of $5 per week, and asks that this amount be doubled and a reasonable attorney’s fee added in accordance with the provisions of Act No. 310 of 1910, which authorizes such penalty when payment is arbitrarily delayed. Defendant avers that the plaintiff was more than two weeks in arrears in the payment of her premiums, and that consequently, under paragraph 5 of the conditions of the policy which stipulates “that the insured will not be entitled to sick or accident benefits when premium…