7th Circuit Panel Reverses Ruling For Insurer, Finding Accident Could Have Killed Man

(January 9, 2017, 9:38 PM EST) -- CHICAGO — A Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Dec. 13 reversed an Illinois federal judge’s decision in favor of Sun Life and Health Insurance Co., saying that the insurer must pay $92,000 in accidental death benefits to the widow of a man who died after undergoing surgery to repair an Achilles tendon he tore playing basketball because his accident alone could have been the cause of his death (Lee Ann Prather v. Sun Life and Health Insurance Co. (U.S.), No. 16-1861, 7th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 22135)....

Related Sections