Lichtenstein v. New York Life Insurance

In an action by a widow, as the named beneficiary under a $10,000 policy of insurance on the life of her husband, to recover the double indemnity benefit payable thereunder if (as the complaint alleged and the answer denied) the death of the named insured (plaintiff’s husband) “resulted *957directly and independently of all other causes from bodily injuries effected solely through external, violent and accidental means,” the defendant insurer appeals, as limited by its brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Queens County, dated January 2, 1962, as denied its motion to preclude…