Hestad v. Pennsylvania Life Insurance Company

Todd, Justice.

Defendant appeals from an order denying its alternative motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict or a new trial following a jury verdict determining that defendant was obli gated to pay insurance benefits under its policy. Defendant had claimed that the insured’s death was by suicide and that it was therefore not obligated to pay under the terms of the policy. Defendant alleges that the trial court erred in excluding a medical opinion of the deputy coroner that death was by suicide and not accidental and also in excluding an opinion of the county sheriff on the same…