Armstrong v. Employers Casualty Company

WILSON, Justice.

Defendant’s motion for instructed verdict _ was sustained in an action for recovery of accidental death benefits under defendant’s policy naming plaintiff beneficiary. The policy covered “loss resulting directly and independently of all other causes, from bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental means”, excluding loss resulting “from self-destruction” whether sane or insane, and that “caused by intentionally self-inflicted injury.” Insured died as a result of a self-inflicted gun shot wound which plaintiff alleged resulted accidentally, and which…