Cudd v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

Goolsby, Judge:

An administrator and a designated beneficiary brought these actions to collect medical and life insurance benefits respectively under a group policy issued by the respondent, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, to the decedent, Kenneth Joe Cudd, through his employer, the Kohler Company. Albert D. Cudd, the decedent’s administrator, and Ella W. Cudd, the decedent’s designated beneficiary under the group policy’s life insurance provision, appeal the lower court’s direction of verdicts in both cases. We affirm.

The evidence in the two cases, which were consolidated for…