Ewins v. Washington National Insurance

Plaintiff sued as beneficiary of a health and accident insurance policy issued to her husband. Defendant sold its “combination policy” exclusively to regular readers of a certain newspaper for an annual premium of $5. On the outside df the policy appears in heavy type a recital that the policy provides indemnity for loss of life, either by accident or by sickness, and for loss of limb, sight or time by accidental means, “to the extent herein limited and provided.” Diagonally across this entire text is printed in larger but light red letters the words, “This is a limited policy. Dead…