Legal Opinion
Castro v. Fireman's Fund American Life Insurance
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 22, 1988No. A037537PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
RACANELLI, P. J.
In this case, we consider the interpretation of an aviation exclusion clause in a life insurance policy.
Facts
Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 16, 1984, Joseph Castro died in a small plane crash near Petaluma. Castro had been taking flying lessons since August 1984 from Vindar Aviation in Marin County and was scheduled to receive flight instruction from 9 to 11 a.m. on the day of the accident. Prior to that time, Castro, who had not yet qualified for a student pilot certificate, had logged about 15 hours of in-flight instruction and had completed lesson number seven in…
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