Mary Jane Wickman v. Northwestern National Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an injury is not accidental if “a reasonable person in [the insured’s] shoes would have expected the result.”
• holding that an injury is not accidental if \a reasonable person in [the insured’s] shoes would have expected the result.\
• noting that the common law prescribes that policy contract terms should be judged from the viewpoint of the insured
• noting that handbook detailing ERISA rights, distributed to employees, “is strong evidence that the employer has adopted an ERISA regulated plan”
• finding that insured reasonably should have expected serious injury when he climbed over guardrail and suspended himself with one hand high above railroad tracks
• explaining that the fact-finder must first determine the insured’s expectations and then “whether the suppositions which underly that expectation were reasonable”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).