Legal Opinion
Cranfill v. Aetna Life Insurance Co.
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided April 9, 2002No. 96,843PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDREAU, Justice:
11 Pursuant to the Uniform Certification of Questions of Law Act, 20 0.8.2001, §§ 1601 et seq, the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma, Ralph G. Thompson, certified the following questions: 1
A. Under Oklahoma law, for purposes of an accidental death and dismemberment insurance policy, is an insured's death "accidental" or is it an "intentionally self-inflicted injury" when the insured intentionally consumes alcohol to a blood alcohol level more than two and one-half times the legal limit for operating a motor vehicle and then dies in a…
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