Nielsen v. Provident Life & Accident Insurance

SHEPARD, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from' a summary judgment in favor of defendant-respondent Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company in an action brought by plaintiff-appellant Mary Nielsen seeking to recover death benefits under an insurance policy on the life of her husband William Nielsen, who died as a result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. We are required for the first time in Idaho to construe an insurance policy excluding benefits where death results from “suicide, while sane or insane.” We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

William Nielsen, on January 14, 1976,…