LIFE INSURANCE.

Evening Star, Issue 3991, 9 December 1875, Page 2

LIFE INSURANCE.

To the Editor. y . our re P° rt of inquest on Alex, Scott in your last evening’s issue, you state the Coroner remarked that the verdict given by the jury would relieve, life insurance offices from responsibility. The Coroner surely must bo in error, as the rules of the Australian Mutual Provident distinctly state that the policy shall not be vitiated should the insured commit suicide after the policy shall have been current for thirteen months. I shall bo glad if you find me space for this, as I know the Coroner’s statement has created an uneasy feeling, and its contradiction ia a correction of an error.—l am, &c., Dunedin, December 7. Inwreb, _ To the Editor. °IR| Having received numerous inquiries as to the correctness of Ur Hocken’s statement at the recent inquest as to the complete vitiation of Me assurance policies by the commission of suicide, will you allow mo, through your columns, to state that the regulations of the Australian Mutual Provident JSociety provide that policies do_ not become void by reason of death by suicide, except when committed within thirteen months Irom the date of assnranee. As Dr Hocken is medical referee for the Government, it is piobable that his remarks may be correctly applicable to the policies granted under the Government scheme.—l am, &c., . Edmund Smith, Agent Australian Mutual Provident Society. Dunedin, December 9.