PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. DOANE

Civ. A. No. 71-1186.

339 F.Supp. 1240 (1972)

The PRUDENTIAL INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA v. Evelyn P. DOANE, Individually and as Administratrix of the Estate of Isaac Thomas Doane, Deceased, et al.

United States District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

March 13, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Peter C. Paul, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff, Prudential Ins. Co.

Charles Polis, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiff-in-interpleader, Evelyn P. Doane.

Robert F. Kelly, Media, Pa., for defendants-in-interpleader, Nathaniel Doane and others.


MEMORANDUM

DITTER, District Judge.

This interpleader matter comes before the court on a motion for summary judgment. It is a life insurance case involving two questions. First, under the Pennsylvania Slayer's Act, may a beneficiary who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of an insured receive the proceeds of a policy on his life, and second, was the insured's death "accidental" requiring the payment of double indemnity...

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