Fanti v. Travelers Insurance

This is an action predicated upon the disability and waiver of premium provisions of a life insurance policy, containing an incontestability clause, issued by the defendant to the plaintiff. Plaintiff concedes that he inflicted upon himself the gunshot wound which resulted in his disability, but not with the intent of collecting disability benefits under the policy. The defendant conceded the disability. Proof was then adduced by the defendant that the plaintiff was indicted for murder, the charge being that he shot and killed a woman on the same day that he inflicted the wound upon himself.…