Filmore v. Metropolitan Life Insurance

Citations

• 82 Ohio St. (N.S.) 208

Syllabus

<p>Life insurance beneñciary — Cannot recover on policy — When death of insured caused by beneñciary — Question of intentional killing.</p> <p>1. The beneficiary in a life insurance policy cannot recover thereon where the death of the assured is caused by the intentional and felonious act of such beneficiary.</p> <p>2. In an action to recover upon a policy of life insurance brought by the person named therein as the beneficiary, an answer by the insurance company alleging that the plaintiff murdered the assured, states a defense, such an averment, in legal effect, being tantamount to the allegation that the killing charged was intentional and felonious.</p>