Accidental Death

  • 1975 - LR - Life Insurance - Death Of An Insured Due To Intentional Killing By Member Of Family Is To Be Deemed Accidental If The Insured Could Not Reasonably Have Foreseen The Extent Of Danger. Wade v. Continental Insurance Co. (8th Cir. 1975) - 10p

  • 2010 - LC - Paul E. Svensson, Plaintiff, v. Securian Life Insurance Company, Defendant,Case No. 08-CV-10148 (KMK). United States District Court, S.D. New York., March 31, 2010.
    • What is an accident?
    • "More precisely, when is death accidental under insurance policies specifically written for such events?
    • For a century and a half, courts and underwriters have struggled to answer what has been described as `one of the more philosophically complex simple questions.'" Adam F. Scales, Man, God and the Serbonian Bog: The Evolution of Accidental Death Insurance, 86 Iowa L. Rev. 173, 175 (2000) (quoting Fegan v. State Mut. Life Assurance Co. of Am., 945 F.Supp. 396, 399 (D.N.H.1996)).