Linden Motor Freight Co., Inc. v. Travelers Ins. Co.

How courts have described this case

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

• denying coverage under accidental means policy where insured died from septicemia after deliberately pulling hair from nose
• clear terms of an insurance contract may not be disregarded by judiciary to rewrite the contract for the parties
• \construction of insurance policy language is not ordinarily controlled by the standards applicable to a contract negotiated at arms length between two parties on the same plane\
• “construction of insurance policy language is not ordinarily controlled by the standards applicable to a contract negotiated at arms length between two parties on the same plane”
• insured who died of heart attack after voluntarily picking up seven or eight cartons weighing sixty-three pounds each did not die of an accident because nothing unforeseen or unexpected happened except for the resulting injury

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