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LAMB v. NORTHWESTERN NAT. LIFE INS. CO.

No. 1934, September Term, 1982.

56 Md. App. 125 (1983)

467 A.2d 182

CHERYL LAMB ET AL v. NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 2, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James D. McCarthy, Jr., Annapolis, for appellants.

Kevin A. Dunne, Baltimore, with whom were John A. Wolf and Ober, Grimes & Shriver, Baltimore, on brief, for appellee.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and ALPERT and BLOOM, JJ.

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

The interesting question posed to us by this appeal is whether under the law of the District of Columbia a murder is a death by accidental means within the ambit of a double indemnity1 clause of an insurance policy.

Before we endeavor to discuss the matter we shall first set the factual scene from which the case arose:

Edna and Charles Lamb returned to their home in Anne Arundel County from an evening...

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