Roeper v. Monarch Life Insurance

Opinion by

Keller, P. J.,

The court below apparently treated this case as if it were to be governed by the principles applicable to an action for damages for personal injury or wrongful death. There was probably sufficient evidence of causal connection between the accident suffered by plaintiff’s insured and his disability and death to warrant a finding that they were caused by the accident, within the rules applicable to actions for damages for personal injury and wrongful death. But this was an action on an insurance policy for accident indemnity and it must be governed by the specific…