The widow of Philadelphia and Boston magazine publisher D. Herbert Lipson claims in a suit that her husband’s children from a previous marriage have wrongly withheld $1.6 million in death benefits owed to her.

Carol Lipson claims in a suit that her husband’s publishing company, Metro Corp., has failed to pay her a $1 million benefit. In June 1997 Herbert Lipson signed the agreement calling for the corporation to pay her that sum on his death, and to pay for her health insurance, but the company has refused to do so, the suit claims.