A pair of former National Basketball Association referees are entitled to disability insurance payments because they believed the pitch of an insurance salesman, even though the policies they signed contradicted what he told them, a federal appeals court ruled on Feb. 24.
In 1996, Sun Life of Canada sales rep Steven Lucas pitched Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Co. supplemental disability insurance at a referees’ union meeting in New Jersey. Referees Ronald Nunn and Donald Vaden liked the terms explained by Lucas: If disabled, they would receive monthly payments until age 65, regardless of their age when disabled or the extent of their disability. They also would be paid even if they could work in another occupation. Nunn and Vaden signed the applications, despite not reading them.
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