Wetherbee v. United Insurance Co. of America

Plaintiff Anne Wetherbee brought this action against defendant United Insurance Company of America to obtain declaratory relief, together with compensatory and punitive damages.

Plaintiff’s first count alleged that she had purchased two policies of health and accident insurance from defendant, the first in 1958, the other in 1960; that said policies provided for a total payment of $150 per month in the event of a disability requiring continuous confinement within doors; that plaintiff was totally and permanently disabled as the result of a stroke in 1964 and that defendant then commenced…