Article June 7, 1900 Issue

Regarding a Life Insurance Case

Alfred Farlow

Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser

Editor of The Advertiser:—

In your issue of May 17, you state: "We notice lately a very interesting question which is causing no little interest in Iowa, and which is connected with and grows out of the Christian Science theory. The case grows out of the death of a man who held a policy in an insurance company. While in his last sickness, he dismissed his physician and substituted Christian Science treatment, dying a few days afterward. One of the rules of the company which issued his policy is that a doctor's certificate must accompany the proof of death before the policy will be paid. The physician who attended him refuses to give a certificate, and no other one can do it, so the company refuses to pay the policy."

I have in my possession, a letter in the handwriting of the chief recorder of the above said insurance company, in which he states that the policy referred to was promptly paid. The statement which you have copied from the Iowa papers is without any foundation whatever. He writes me that the only requisites made by the company are to know that the man is actually dead, and that before his death his dues were all paid and his standing with the company good.

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