Sigler v. Mutual Benefit Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• explaining that the elements of an intentionally self-inflicted injury were met where the decedent's \voluntary acts were intended to temporarily restrict his air supply to heighten the sensations of masturbation\
• explaining that the elements of an intentionally self-inflicted injury were met where the decedent's “voluntary acts were intended to temporarily restrict his air supply to heighten the sensations of masturbation”
• finding that temporarily restricting the supply of oxygen is an injury
• finding that temporarily restricting the supply of oxygen is an injury
• finding death nonaccidental where decedent did not intend to cause own death but, under the circumstances, should reasonably have expected action could be fatal
• eoncluding “reasonable person would have foreseen that death could result from [conduct]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).