Piva v. General American Life Insurance Co.

SHANGLER, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff Piva, wife of the insured decedent and beneficiary under a group insurance policy issued by the defendant General American Life Insurance Company, recovered a jury verdict for the accidental death of her husband. The award for accidental death [$16,000] was in addition to a like sum payable at death, a liability not in dispute. The plaintiff presented evidence that the decedent was an insured of the defendant, that the wife was beneficiary, that the policy provided a $16,000 death benefit and an additional like sum for accidental death, that the insured…