Legal Opinion
Security Life Ins. Co. of America v. Brimmer
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 14, 1929No. 8479PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GARDNER, Circuit Judge.
This is an action to recover on a policy of life insurance written by the defendant insurance company upon the life of Dr. Omar W. Clabaugh. The policy was written January 21.1927.
On February IS, 1928, the insured died of a heart impairment known to the medical profession as coronary occlusion, or stoppage of a blood vessel which supplies the heart muscles. The occlusion or stoppage was caused by an embolus or thrombus; an embolus being a blood clot traveling through the blood stream, and a thrombus being a blood clot affixed to the wall of the blood vessel.
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2Cases cited8 opinions
- Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York v. Hilton-GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1916
- Moulor v. American Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Keller v. Home Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Missouri · 1906
- Northwestern Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. WigginsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1926
- New York Life Ins. v. MoatsCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1913
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- United States v. NickleCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1934
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