Rew v. Beneficial Standard Life Insurance

This is an action on an insurance contract denominated “World-Wide Hospital and Surgical Expense Policy for Family Groups.”

For a consideration, defendant insurer issued to plaintiffs, in Spokane, a policy wherein it agreed, among other things, to pay for plaintiffs’ benefit the sum of ten dollars per day while either of them

“. . . because of sickness or accidental bodily injury covered by this policy, shall be necessarily confined as a resident bed patient within any hospital upon the advice of, and regularly attended by, a legally qualified physician or surgeon, but not to exceed ninety days…