Kochanek v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
This action of contract to recover the amount due upon a life insurance policy, issued on April 22,1922, by the Prudential Insurance Company of America to Katie Nalepa upon her life, is before this court on report by a judge of the Superior Court. The plaintiff is the beneficiary named in the policy.
The record does not disclose when the assured delivered her policy to an agent of the insurance company for transmission to the home office of that company, and signed and sent to the insurance company a “proper written notice” of the change in the beneficiary which she had determined to make. The…
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