Harris v. Carolina Life Insurance

OWEN, Judge.

Plaintiff appeals from a summary judgment for defendant in a suit on an accidental death insurance policy. On the basis of agreed facts, the trial court held that there was no coverage. We affirm.

Plaintiff was the beneficiary of an accidental death policy issued by the defendant on plaintiff’s husband as the insured. While the policy was in effect the insured was killed in the collision of a vehicle in which he was riding as a passenger. At the time of the decedent’s death he was under the influence of intoxicating alcohol but all parties concede that there was no causal…