Occidental Life Insurance Co. of North Carolina v. Hurley

ELLIS, Chief Justice.

In this appeal from a judgment entered against a life insurance company in favor of the plaintiff-beneficiary on a policy insuring the plaintiff’s daughter, the basic question is when the two year suicide clause of such policy commenced to run. The trial court determined as a matter of law that the suicide clause in question was a continuation of a prior suicide clause of a policy insuring the mother, plaintiff herein, and covering the daughter as an insured child prior to the issuance of the subsequently converted policy upon the daughter. The trial court, sitting…