Semancik v. Continental Casualty Co.
Citations
- 56 Pa. Super. 392
- 1914 Pa. Super. LEXIS 99
Syllabus
<p>Insurance — Accident insurance — Death by sunstroke.</p> <p>Where an accident insurance policy provides for an indemnity in ease of “personal bodily injury .... which is effected directly and independently of all other causes through external, violent and purely accidental means,” and also “if sunstroke .... due .... to external, violent and accidental means shall result independently of all other causes in the death of the insured,” no recovery can be had for a death by sunstroke unless it is shown that the sunstroke was brought about by some concurring accident.</p>
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- warning that the “true principles” of a malicious prosecution claim must be “strictly adhered to”
- warning that the \true principles\ of a malicious prosecution claim must be \strictly adhered to\
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Judges: Head, Henderson, Orlady, Porter, Rice
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