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Definition of Double indemnity
1. Noun. A clause in an insurance policy that provides for double the face value of the policy in the case of accidental death.
Definition of Double indemnity
1. Noun. (legal) A clause in an insurance policy in which the insurance company agrees to pay out double the normal coverage in certain specified circumstances, most often in case of accidental death ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Indemnity
Literary usage of Double indemnity
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Life and Accident Insurance: Including Benefit by Frederick Hampden Bacon (1917)
"The Same Subject—double indemnity.— It is common for the modern accident insurance
policies to provide for the payment of double indemnity if death results ..."
2. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1919)
"Held, that he could not recover double indemnity, since he had safely ...
There the policy of insurance provided for a double indemnity in the ment that ..."
3. Handbook of the Law of Insurance by William Reynolds Vance (1904)
"In some accident policies it is provided that a double indemnity shall be paid for
... In determining when the insurer is liable for double indemnity, ..."
4. The Ohio Nisi Prius Reports by Ohio Courts (1917)
"Traveler's Insurance Co., 166 Fed., 183, the law has been undergoing a change in
so far as the question ot double indemnity is concerned, and that while it ..."
5. Proceedings of the ... National Convention of Insurance Commissioners of the (1911)
"As to double indemnity, home oflice wrote: "I assume double liability is not ...
If when you come to deliver the draft the question of double indemnity is ..."
6. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"It would have given indemnity, and not double indemnity. CITY OF LEXINGTON, Plff.
in Err, v. JOSEPH C. BUTLER. (See BC 14 Wall. 282-297. ..."
7. Insurance, Principles and Practices by Robert Riegel, Henry James Loman (1922)
"double indemnity If such injuries a« ... to double indemnity the Elective indemnity
thai! be doubled in like ..."
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