Wright v. Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance

Gregory, Justice:

Respondent Beulah B. Wright brought this action against appellant, The Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Co., [Minnesota Mutual} to recover the proceeds of a certificate of insurance insuring her husband, Ernest Wright, under a group life insurance policy issued to August Kohn and Company, Inc. [August Kohn}. This appeal is from the order of the lower court granting Mrs. Wright’s motion for summary judgment on the ground the action is barred by the policy’s two year incontestability clause. We hold the certificate of insurance is not incontestable and reverse.

Minnesota Mutual…