Accident Insurance.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7877, 20 July 1905, Page 4

Accident Insurance.

—_♦— "Would a person (the holder of a personal accident policy with weekly compensation and an amount at tlealh->wlro is seriously injured in al tempt inj; to stop a rtin-a.way horse be entitled to recover under his accident policy '.'" The question, says the Post, caused a keen discussion al a recent meetitiß of the Insurance Institute. It was held by Mr Hawk that the almost universal coirilitii.ti of accident policies prohibited a mutt claimins who had exposed himself to a known danger. On the oilier hand Mr Rogers quoted from Hay on insurance that if a man j;ets into ~ boat to rescue a shipwrecked crew, and is drowned in flic attempt, his policy holds good as be would ie.- v have been acting as a man did he not- make the atlcmpl. lie therefore ■lbought the man slopping, the runaway was the victim of an accident ami could claim. Mr iUoiiletlorr, ii. his reply, said that he certainly ■ thought a man aclitifr as the one under discussion would he acting as a citizen in the interest of the public, and he did not think any company would refuse lo pay out in such a case.