Douglas Y. Tester, as Personal Representative of the Estate of Annie Ruth Tester, Deceased v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Company

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• refusing to use the definition of “active work” to define “active” while interpreting substantively similar policy language
• holding, under materially identical Reliance policy provision, that employee who had been on medical leave for five weeks before death was covered because she \was working for [the employer] on a regular basis and . . . was simply out sick when she died\
• finding Reliance's interpretation of the term \active\ leads to an absurd result
• considering 20 continued paychecks relevant to determining reasonable expectations of employee
• \Reliance's construction of the term 'active' does not eliminate the ambiguity . . . because it unreasonably restricts coverage to the time that an employee is actually at work.\
• interpreting accidental death insurance policy with similar language

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