Case: Health & Welfare Benefits/Life Insurance (D. Mass.) – Bloomberg Law

National Union Fire Insurance Co. of Pittsburgh is entitled to summary judgment in a PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP employee’s lawsuit seeking $500,000 in accidental death benefits on behalf of her husband, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts held. The insurer didn’t abuse its discretion when it determined that the decedent’s death was a suicide rather than an accident that would trigger coverage, the court said. The decedent fell from a window. The investigative summary of the incident described him as “hurtling himself over the 10th floor railing,” although his brother, who was present at the scene, disputed the finding…