J. A. Riesterer v. Crown Life Insurance Company

In this Michigan diversity case, plaintiff, J. A. Riesterer, appeals a judgment entered on a directed verdict against her. She had sued defendant, Crown Life Insurance Co., to recover $25,000 she claimed was due her through an accidental death provision of an insurance policy. The district court concluded that there was insufficient evidence that the death had been accidental. Riesterer also appeals several evidentiary rulings. We affirm the judgment of the district court.

Riesterer’s decedent, a fireman, died at the age of 52 of a myocardial infarction — a heart attack — suffered while inside…