Accidental Means: A Brief on the Insuring Clause of Personal Accident Policies

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C.C. Hine's Sons, 1917 - 118 σελίδες
 

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Σελίδα 12 - ... happening by chance; unexpectedly taking place; not according to the usual course of things or not as expected;' that if a result is such as follows from ordinary means, voluntarily employed, in a not unusual or unexpected way, it cannot be called a result effected by accidental means; but that if, in the act which precedes the injury, something unforeseen, unexpected, unusual occurs which produces the injury, then the injury has resulted through accidental means.
Σελίδα 110 - It means that the law will not go further back in the line of causation than to find the active, efficient, procuring cause, of which the event under consideration is a natural and probable consequence, in view of the existing circumstances and conditions.
Σελίδα 1 - An event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event...
Σελίδα 4 - ... and, in the other policy, if death should result " from bodily injuries effected directly and independently of all other causes through external, violent and accidental means.
Σελίδα 3 - The policy itself purports to be subject to a proviso that it shall not extend to any "bodily injury of which there shall be no external and visible sign : nor to any bodily injury happening directly or indirectly in consequence of disease; nor to any death or disability which may have been caused wholly or in part by bodily infirmities or disease...
Σελίδα 4 - ... any injury caused by or arising from natural disease or weakness or exhaustion consequent upon disease * * * * or to any death arising from disease, although such death may have been accelerated by accident.
Σελίδα 4 - The holder of a policy, insuring him against disability or death "resulting directly, and Independently of all other causes, from bodily Injuries sustained through external, violent and accidental means," committed an assault and battery on a person who made no resistance, and.
Σελίδα 33 - Injuries fatal or otherwise received while or in consequence of being or having been under the Influence of or affected by or resulting directly or indirectly in whole or in part from intoxicants, anaesthetics, narcotics, sunstroke, freezing, vertigo, sleepwalking, fits, hernia, orcliitis or any disease or bodily infirmity, nor any injury, fatal or otherwise, received while violating law, resisting arrest or fleeing front Justice.
Σελίδα 81 - ... directly or indirectly, from bodily or mental infirmity, or disease in any form, proximate or contributory, as a primary, secondary or final cause of accident, injury or death.
Σελίδα 2 - In the course of his business he lifted a heavy burden, and injured his spine. It was objected that he did not sustain bodily injury by reason of an accident. The plaintiff recovered. In North American Ins. Co. v. Burroughs, 69 Penn. St. 43, the policy was against death "in consequence of accident...

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