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PART II. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

TITLE II. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS

CHAPTER 190A. EFFECT OF APPARENTLY SIMULTANEOUS DEATHS UPON DEVOLUTION AND DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY, INCLUDING PROCEEDS OF INSURANCE

Chapter 190A: Section 4. Simultaneous death of insured and beneficiary

[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 8. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

  Section 4. Where the insured and the beneficiary in a policy or contract of life or endowment insurance or insurance against accident have died and there is no sufficient evidence that they have died otherwise than simultaneously the proceeds of the policy or contract shall be payable as if the insured had survived the beneficiary.