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Insurance-Right Of Insured To Recover Under Disability Clause Of Life Insurance Policy For Self-Inflicted Injury, Robert M. Barton S. Ed. Dec 1944

Insurance-Right Of Insured To Recover Under Disability Clause Of Life Insurance Policy For Self-Inflicted Injury, Robert M. Barton S. Ed.

Michigan Law Review

A policy of life insurance was issued to one Rice providing for payment of certain disability benefits to the insured if he should "sustain a physical impairment such as . . . the permanent loss of the sight of both eyes." As a proximate result of an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide the insured was blinded. The policy contained no express limitations or restrictions on such self-inflicted injuries but did provide that the insurance company should not be liable for benefits "if the death of the insured resulted from suicide." Rice was apparently sane at the time he attempted to …


Evidence - Admissibility Of Age In Hospital Record As Business Entry, Craig E. Davids Oct 1944

Evidence - Admissibility Of Age In Hospital Record As Business Entry, Craig E. Davids

Michigan Law Review

Representing his birth date as 1866, deceased purchased from defendant insurance company in 1921 a policy on his life, which provided that in the event of any misrepresentation of age the insured's beneficiary would receive only that amount which a standard policy issued at his true age would stipulate for the premiums paid. In a suit by the beneficiary to recover on the policy, defendant attempted to prove that deceased was born at least as early as 1862. Among other evidence, defendant introduced a hospital record of deceased's visit to a particular institution in 1936 where he represented his age …


The Assignment Of A Life Insurance Policy, Grover C. Grismore Apr 1944

The Assignment Of A Life Insurance Policy, Grover C. Grismore

Michigan Law Review

There is a great deal of uncertainty and confusion in the decided cases in regard to the effect to be given to the assignment of a life insurance policy. This is unfortunate, since to a large extent life insurance has come to be regarded as an investment medium, and as an asset which can be hypothecated by the insured in times of financial emergency.


Rights Of Holder Of Possibility Of Revertor And Owner Of Determinable Fee To Insurance Proceeds From Policy Procured By The Latter - Board Of Education V. Winding Gulf Collieries Jan 1944

Rights Of Holder Of Possibility Of Revertor And Owner Of Determinable Fee To Insurance Proceeds From Policy Procured By The Latter - Board Of Education V. Winding Gulf Collieries

Maryland Law Review

No abstract provided.


United States Of America V. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, Hugh Evander Willis Jan 1944

United States Of America V. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, Hugh Evander Willis

Articles by Maurer Faculty

No abstract provided.


Insurance Payable To A Married Woman--Effect Of K.R.S. 297.140, Ira G. Stephenson Jan 1944

Insurance Payable To A Married Woman--Effect Of K.R.S. 297.140, Ira G. Stephenson

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.