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Public Law 84–181
To provide for payment of a reasonable attorney’s fee by the insured in a suit brought by him or on his behalf during his lifetime for waiver of premiums on account of total disability.
Approved July 26, 1955
Statutory text
AN ACT
To provide for payment of a reasonable attorney’s fee by the insured in a suit brought by him or on his behalf during his lifetime for waiver of premiums on account of total disability.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That section 500 of the World War Veterans’ Act, 1924, as amended, is hereby amended by substituting a semicolon for the period at the end of the first sentence thereof and adding the following: “except that in a suit brought by or on behalf of an insured during his lifetime, for waiver of premiums on account of total disability, the court, as part of its judgment or decree, shall determine and allow a reasonable fee to be paid by the insured to his attorney.”
Approved July 26, 1955.