A 25-year-old man who died after passing a truck on his motorcycle in a no-passing zone wasn’t committing a crime at the time of the accident, so his wife can collect on his life insurance policy, a federal judge has ruled.
Sun Life Assurance Co., which had issued De’Marcus Locklear an accidental death policy worth $71,000, had denied Samantha Locklear’s claim to the funds because, it said, the provision in the policy on death during the commission of a crime would void the policy.
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