Noseworthy v. Allstate Life Insurance

1. Jury instruction. In the face of conflicting requests for jury instruc*925tians, the trial judge charged the jury as to the exclusionaiy clause thus: “Now, the policy excludes from coverage any form of self-destruction, purposeful or otherwise. For example, if this is a suicide, that is, if this is a purposeful or intentional taking of one’s own life, there is no coverage under the policy. Even if you find that this were a taking of one’s own life in a frenzy caused by psychological disturbance, as long as the result is that the person destroyed his own life, there is, again, no coverage.” The…