Legal Opinion
Miller v. Continental Insurance
New York Court of Appeals
Decided November 23, 1976PublishedCited by 163 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtFuchsberg, J.
On August 20, 1971, 20-year-old Douglas Miller, who had then been steadily employed by the Long Island Railroad for over one year, was found dead at the home of his parents with a needle in his wrist. There were no witnesses to the insertion of the needle or to the death.
Young Miller had seemed happy in his employment and had never manifested any evidence of emotional imbalance. While the deputy medical examiner who performed the autopsy, and who ascribed the death to an overdose of heroin, found scarring indicative of habitual drug use on the decedent’s arms, witnesses who knew him testified…
2Cases cited27 opinions
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railway Co. v. VoigtSupreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Landress v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Hartol Products Corp. v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaNew York Court of Appeals · 1943
- McGroarty v. Great American InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1975
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3Cited by163 opinions
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- Ruder & Finn Inc. v. Seaboard Surety Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Automobile Insurance v. CookNew York Court of Appeals · 2006
- Public Service Mutual Insurance v. GoldfarbNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Uniroyal, Inc. v. Home InsuranceDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1988
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