INSURANCE CASE.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20101, 3 December 1930, Page 8

INSURANCE CASE.

JUDGMENT FOE COMPANY. • (rasas association TELSOBAM.) WELLINGTON, Deoember 2. Reserved decision was given by Mr E. Page, S.M., in the case in which George Thomas Maslem proceeded against the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company for additional compensation* which plaintiff considered' was due to him under an accident and sickness policy, taken out with the company. The Magistrate said that under the policy it was provided plaintiff should receive-- insurance money should he be rendered totally unable to attend business .of any kind, and bo ■ necessarily continuously confined to his house as a result. Plaintiff contracted pneumonia, and as a result his heart was affected. He bad been paid full compensation for a certain time and part compensation for a further four weeks, but claimed full compensation for the full time of his illness. Tho Magistrate held that _ the evidence fell short of establishing that plaintiff was totally _unable to attend to business of any kind, and was continuously confined to his liouse, as there were periods when ho went to Auckland for a change, and on a motor trip to Wanpanui. He therefore entered judgment for the defendant company with costs.