X-Message-Number: 1949 From: Graham Wilson <> Subject: CRYONICS Date: Fri, 12 Mar 93 12:19:34 WET Christian Roth Writes : > Message: #1941 - Insurance Fraud??? > Date: 10 Mar 1993 23:54:50 -0500 (EST) > From: > Message-Subject: Re: cryonics: #1919-#1924 > > > Subject: Insurance Fraud??? > > A question to all the people out there that know more about laws than I > do: Suppose I am an Alcor member with a $150000 life insurance policy. > I die, the money goes to Alcor, Alcor freezes me. In say 500 years, > I get revived. Since I am alive, would it not be possible for the > insurance company to sue me? I mean, I cashed a life insurance policy, > but I am not dead anymore? Graham Wilson Writes : Under English law I doubt that the insurance company would be able to make a claim against the reanimated patient. Insurance is a contract. Contracts are covered by the Limitation Acts (the last major changes were made under the 1980 act). Essentially, unless you were reanimated within 6 years of the performance of the contract -the point at which the insurance monies were paid over- an action would become statute barred. Similarly, unless the law specifically revokes your death certificate when you are reanimated you would have a defence, as you cannot sue a dead person. You may only sue their estate. However, by now the estate would have been distributed so any claims would have fallen by the wayside. -- ********************************************************* * Graham Wilson * * * LL.B. Law III * Coventry University * ********************************************************* Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1949