WICKMAN

v.

NORTHWESTERN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE CO.

Citator

Cited By

• LEE v. Blue Cross/Blue Shield OF Alabama, 10 F.3d 1547 (11th Cir. 1994)
  …ir.1992); Delk v. Durham Life Ins. Co., 959 F. 2d 104 (8th Cir.1992); Masella v. Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Connecticut, 936 F. 2d 98 (2d Cir.1991); Kunin v. Benefit Trust Life Ins. Co., 910 F. 2d 534 (9th Cir.) (alternative holding), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1013, 111 S.Ct. 581, 112 L.Ed.2d 587 (1990); cf. Blair v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co., 974 F. 2d 1219, 1222 (10th Cir.1992) (declining to apply contra proferentem but resolving ambiguities in insured’s favor “consistent with basic trust principles”). Bu…
• Buce v. Allianz Life Ins. Co., 247 F.3d 1133 (11th Cir. 2001)
  …v. Federal Kemper Life Assurance Co., 7 Cal.4th 125, 27 Cal.Rptr.2d 316, 866 P. 2d 774, 781 (1994). Justice George also noted that the First Circuit, in an ERISA case—Wickman v. Northwestern Nat. Ins. Co., 908 F. 2d 1077 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1013, 111 S.Ct. 581, 112 L.Ed.2d 586 (1990)—had rejected “accidental means.” In Wickman, the decedent, Paul Wick-man, fell to his death from a highway bridge to railroad tracks forty or fifty feet below. When last seen, the decedent was “standing on the…

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• Randol v. Mid-West Nat'l Life Ins. Co. OF Tenn., 987 F.2d 1547 (11th Cir. 1993)
  …the paycheck of the one employee who chose to participate. Participation was voluntary and the employer did not subsidize purchase of the policy. See Wickman v. Northwestern National Insurance Co., 908 F. 2d 1077, 1082-83 (1st Cir.), cert. denied, 498 U.S. 1013, 111 S.Ct. 581, 112 L.Ed.2d 586 (1990) (describing facts of Taggart). In Donovan, we agreed that the employer’s actions in Tag-gart did not constitute “maintenance]” of an ERISA plan. Indeed, the Taggart plan would appear to be excluded from the E…