Mary Santaella and Cary Eldridge v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1997-07-23

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RIPPLE, Circuit Judge. Appellants Mary Santaella and Cary El-dridge are the mother and husband, respectively, of Teresita Eldridge, a woman who died as the result of prescription drug intoxication; they are also the named beneficiaries in her accident insurance policy. When Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (“Met-Life”) neither denied nor paid their claim for accident insuranc…

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