Carmen Gonzalez v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company

CYR, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-appellant Carmen Gonzalez filed a claim with defendant-appellee John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company (“Hancock”) for interim insurance benefits on the life of her husband, who died within two months after filing an insurance application with Hancock. Since no policy of insurance ever issued and a contractual precondition for interim insurance coverage was not met, Hancock denied coverage. The only question in the case is whether interim life insurance coverage was in force at the time of decedent’s death. We affirm the district court judgment in favor of…