Brandeis v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Opinion by

Baudeige, J.,

This action was brought to recover accidental death benefits from the defendant insurance company under two industrial policies, the terms of which are identical. There is a provision therein that upon receipt of due proof that the insured has sustained bodily injuries, “solely through external, violent and accidental means, resulting directly and independently of all other causes, in the death of the insured,” the company will pay an accidental death benefit. “No accidental death benefit, will be paid......if death is caused or contributed to, directly or indirectly,…