Legal Opinion
Huss v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided March 7, 1941No. Civ. 53PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtClark, Circuit Judge
(sitting as District Judge pursuant to statutory designation) .
The question presented herein is whether or not death by sunstroke makes operative the provisions of a life insurance policy granting an additional benefit equal to the face of the policy in case of death of the insured by accidental means. The insured in this case was Thomas F. Reynolds, employed by the Rider Dairy Company of Danbury, Connecticut, as operator of a retail milk delivery truck. On August 20, 1937, he was called upon to deliver some 650 quarts of milk from the dairy in Dan-bury to approximately 300 customers on a…
2Cases cited13 opinions
- Erie Railroad v. TompkinsSupreme Court of the United States · 1938
- West v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1940
- Landress v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Larke v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1916
- Goethe v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of South Carolina · 1937
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Raley v. Life & Casualty Insurance Co. of TennesseeDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1955
- Paul Revere Life Ins. v. StanfieldCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1945
- Metropolitan Life Insurance Company v. Eleanor E. Main, the Travelers Insurance Company v. Eleanor E. MainCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1967
- Simpson v. Travelers Ins.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1941
- Palco Linings, Inc. v. Pavex, Inc.District Court, M.D. Pennsylvania · 1990
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