Legal Opinion
Sims v. Great American Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 7, 2006No. 04-5135PublishedCited by 96 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
Lawrence Sims died when the speeding car he was driving sailed off a rural road. Prior to his untimely death, he had obtained life insurance from Great American Life Insurance Company. Sims’s wife made a claim on this policy, but after an investigation Great Anerican denied the claim under its non-accidental death provision concluding that Sims committed suicide. Mrs. Sims then filed suit against Great American alleging breach of contract and bad faith for its failure to pay her husband’s life insurance policy. A jury found the death was accidental and awarded Mrs.…
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