Perkins v. Group Life & Health Insurance Co.

BEA ANN SMITH, Justice.

Appellee Group Life & Health Insurance Company (Group Life) filed an action in district court seeking a declaratory judgment that Group Life owes no prejudgment interest on an insurance claim paid to appellants, Kittie H. Perkins, Lowell L. Perkins, Steven G. Perkins, Randall L. Perkins, and Kristi L. Perkins Jernigan (the Perkins family), following the accidental death of a state employee, Glen E. Perkins. Group Life initially refused to pay the supplemental death benefit because it maintained that Perkins’s death was not accidental. This refusal to pay was upheld by…