Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Continental Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided September 6, 1985No. 85-3575PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
EUGENE A. WRIGHT, Circuit Judge.
On appeal from summary judgment for two insurers, the issue is whether an accidental death policy unambiguously excluded the decedent from coverage. We conclude that the district court was correct in determining that he was excluded.
FACTS
The decedent, G. Ray Roberts, died in the crash of a small private plane. He owned and was piloting the plane in the accident.
At the time of his death, he was employed in Alaska by H.W. Blackstock Company. Blackstock named him as an insured under an accidental death policy issued by the defendant insurance companies. The policy…
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