Bickford v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

The major issue of this case is whether the trial court correctly ruled that the two-year suicide clause in a life insurance policy began to run on the date the policy was issued. The plaintiff, as administratrix of her deceased husband’s estate as well as named beneficiary in his life insurance policy, filed an action in both tort and contract to recover proceeds and damages arising out of a coverage dispute under the life insurance policy issued by the defendants to the plaintiff’s husband. A trial without jury resulted in verdicts in favor of the defendants. All questions of law raised by…