Korff v. Travelers Ins. of Hartford

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

This case presents the problem of the liability of an insurer under a policy insuring against accidental death, where death results from the concurrence of an accident and a diseased condition, neither of which would have been sufficient to cause death but for the concurrence of the other. The court ruled on the question as a matter of law, directing a verdict in favor of the insurer, on the admission that “ * * * the plaintiff does not contend that the accident, the fall alone, under the evidence in the case would have caused the death, if it had not been for the…