Cassidy v. Occidental Life Insurance Co. of California

OPINION

EUBANK, Presiding Judge.

In this appeal from an order of the Superior Court dismissing plaintiffs-appellants’ complaint, we are asked to decide whether a death resulting from the breaking of a previously successfully implanted internal prosthetic device was “effected solely through external, violent, and accidental means” within the meaning of the provisions of a life insurance policy issued by the appellee, so as to entitle appellants to recover for that death under the double indemnity provisions of that policy.

Appellants were the beneficiaries under a life insurance policy issued by…