Handler v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

MEMORANDUM

MOTZ, District Judge.

Plaintiff Leslie A. Handler has brought this action against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“MetLife”) to collect “accidental means” death benefits under the Federal Employees’ Group Life Insurance Policy covering the life of her husband, Gordon R. Handler (the “insured”). MetLife has made a counter-claim seeking a declaratory judgment that it properly denied these benefits because the insured’s death was caused by medical or surgical treatment of an illness, which the terms of the policy exclude from coverage. It has moved for summary judgment. For the…