A Hint to Policy-holders

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 16, 16 April 1903, Page 18

A Hint to Policy-holders

Some of our readers who are holders of life-insurance policies may be interested in the following paragraph which we extract from the Philadelphia ' Catholic Standard.' It is a copy of a letter written to the manager of a life insurance company by a policy-holder, and runs as follows : ' I hold a policy in your company for 20,000 dollars, on which I have paid the yearly premiums. I have now to inform you that my physician advises me that I have a pronounced case of appendicitis, and his diagnosis is confirmed by a specialist whom I have consulted. I am told that the only hope of saving life is an operation, which, with hospital expenses, will cost 800 dollars, an amount that I have no means to pay. I am sensible that I owe it to you, who rave so large a pecuniary interest in my life, to give you the option to pay the cost of this operation to f-ave my life, that I may continue to pay you the yearly premiums on my policy (I believe that I am otherwise strong and healthy), or in the alternative to pay the 20,000 dollars to my beneficiary within a few weeks. I am quite willing to be examined by any physicians you may name and to have you select the operating surIfeon. Immediate attention is, of course, imperative.'