White v. Aetna Life Insurance

Woods, Judge:

This is an action to recover benefits alleged to be due under a permanent total disability provision, attached to and made part of a certain $3,000.00 life contract, the pertinent portion of which reads: “If, before default in payment of premium, the insured becomes totally and permanently disabled by bodily injuries or disease and is thereby prevented from performing any work or conducting any business for compensation or profit, the following benefits will be available,” etc. Judgment was rendered for the plaintiff before a justice of Mingo County. Upon an appeal the circuit…