Britton v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance

As partial return for work rendered to his employer the plaintiff-appellant employee received the benefits of a group policy of insurance which required that to

“any * * * employee * * * wholly and continuously disabled * * * and * * * thereby prevented from performing any and every duty of his occupation, the company shall pay * * * a weekly benefit * * * for the period of such disability but not exceeding 52 weeks for any one continuous period of disability. * * * [0]ne continuous period of disability shall include successive periods of disability due to the same or related cause which are…