471.040. Insurance policies. - Missouri Statutes

Insurance policies.

471.040. Where the insured and the beneficiary in a policyof life or accident insurance have died and there is nosufficient evidence that they have died otherwise thansimultaneously the proceeds of the policy shall be distributed asif the insured had survived the beneficiary.

(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.