Schifanelli v. Wallace

How courts have described this case

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• holding that where the death of the insured resulted from gross negligence on the part of the designee, the designee may collect pursuant to the policy because the killing was not intentional
• “the rule ... is grounded on the public policy against permitting a wilful and felonious killer to profit by his felony”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).