Vargo v. New York Life Insurance

CHESNUT, District Judge.

On January 1,1957 the New York Life Insurance Company issued to the Henry J. Kaiser Company of California, a group life insurance policy covering its employees. Steve Vargo, a foreman of the Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Company at Halethorpe, Maryland (a subsidiary of the Henry J. Kaiser Company of California), was included in the coverage of the policy and designated his wife, Helen Vargo, as the beneficiary.

Vargo died at the South Baltimore General Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland, on December 3, 1957, as a direct result of uremic poisoning ensuing seven days after a…