Hakspacher v. Aetna Beneficial Ass'n

Citations

• 55 Pa. Super. 410
• 1913 Pa. Super. LEXIS 385

Syllabus

<p>Beneficial association — Siclc benefits — Confinement to the house.</p> <p>Where the certificate of a beneficial association provides that sick benefits shall only be paid during the period that the member “ is strictly, necessarily and continuously confined in the house and subject to the regular personal calls of a physician in good standing, and totally disabled and prevented from transacting any and every kind of business whereby the insured can obtain a livelihood,” such benefits are not payable where it appears that a member was under treatment of a physician and was totally disabled from transacting business during a' period claimed, but that during such period he made weekly trips from his seashore abode to his home in another state for treatment by a physician going on Thursday and returning on Saturday.</p>