Scott v. Ætna Life Insurance

If a tooth is extracted, upon request of the insured, by a competent and skillful dentist, who performs the operation in the usual and ordinary manner, with proper and sterile instruments, employing the requisite degree of care and skill, and thereafter an embolus develops from infection, producing death, can the beneficiary recover double indemnity provided in a policy of insurance for such death resulting “directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injuries effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means,” etc. ?

Undoubtedly the insured met an accidental…