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AMERICAN CASUALTY COMPANY v. SHEFFERMAN

No. 3247.

193 A.2d 428 (1963)

AMERICAN CASUALTY COMPANY OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, a Stock Company, Appellant, v. Ivan J. SHEFFERMAN, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 22, 1963.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard L. Lipshultz, Washington, D. C., with whom Sol Friedman, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellant.

James E. Hogan, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges.

HOOD, Chief Judge.

This appeal presents a question of construction of a provision in a group major medical insurance policy. The provision in question defines "sickness" as used in the policy to mean "sickness or disease causing loss commencing while the Policy is in force * * *." The question is whether "commencing while the Policy is in force" modifies "sickness" or "loss."

It was conceded by the insured that his wife, a dependent under coverage of the policy...

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