Roby v. Connecticut General Life Insurance

This appeal arose out of .an action against the Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, hereinafter referred to as the defendant, brought to recover claimed group life insurance coverage in the face amount of $50,000 on the life of Bradley L. Newcomb, the deceased husband of the plaintiff. The defendant issued the group policy in question to the University of Connecticut where, at the time of his death, Newcomb was a tenured professor, and under the terms of the policy it agreed to provide life insurance to eligible employees of the university. The defendant interposed a special defense…