Thompson v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

The factor which will be determinative of the question of whether the trial court erred in directing a verdict for the defendant in this case is the interpretation to be placed upon the term “accidental means” as used in the double-indemnity provision of insurance- policies providing for such payment where death results “independently of all other causes, from bodily injuries caused solely by external, violent, and accidental means.”

A consideration of the literally hundreds of cases where the courts have sought to construe such provisions in policies of insurance and interpret “accidental…