§ 471.040 — Insurance policies.

Missouri § 471.040

• Jurisdiction: Missouri
• Title XXXI: TRUSTS AND ESTATES OF DECEDENTS AND PERSONS UNDER DISABILITY
• Ch. 471: Uniform Simultaneous Death Law

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Where the insured and the beneficiary in a policy of life or accident insurance have died and there is no sufficient evidence that they have died otherwise than simultaneously the proceeds of the policy shall be distributed as if the insured had survived the beneficiary.

Legislative History

(L. 1947 V. I p. 13 § 4, A.L. 1959 S.B. 120) (1963) Evidence sufficient to support finding that beneficiary survived insured after both were fatally injured in same automobile accident. Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Sutton (A.), 368 S.W.2d 522.