Hamilton v. AIG Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that “courts have refused to interpret the phrase ‘accidental means’ in insurance plans to exclude coverage for deaths caused by an intentional act”
• “Because AIG is a plan fiduciary that also stands to save money through a claim denial, it acts under a potential conflict of interest.”
• “AIG responds that regardless of any lasting effect, a reasonable person might conclude that partial strangulation is an injury. This court agrees with AIG.”
• “However, the fact that reasonable minds might differ on the question simply proves that it is not an abuse of discretion to decide that partial strangulation is an injury.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).