Page Flooring and Construction Co. v. Nationwide Life Insurance Co.

BAILEY ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff corporation sues on three identical insurance policies on the life of its late president, Paglia. The single indemnity was paid, but defendant resists the double indemnity, though, for reasons that we do not understand, apparently conceding the death was accidental within the policy terms. The policies provided,

Benefit

The Company agrees to pay ... [if] the death of the Insured has resulted directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injury caused solely by external, violent and accidental means ... and did not result from a risk…