Effective - 28 Aug 1959
471.040. Insurance policies. — Where the insured and the beneficiary in a policy of life or accident insurance have died and there is no sufficient evidence that they have died otherwise than simultaneously the proceeds of the policy shall be distributed as if the insured had survived the beneficiary.
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(L. 1947 V. I p. 13 § 4, A.L. 1959 S.B. 120)
(1963) Evidence sufficient to support finding that beneficiary survived insured after both were fatally injured in same automobile accident. Prudential Ins. Co. of America v. Sutton (A.), 368 S.W.2d 522.
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXI - Trusts and Estates of Decedents and Persons Under Disability
Chapter 471 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Law
Section 471.010 - No sufficient evidence of survivorship.
Section 471.020 - Survival of beneficiaries.
Section 471.030 - Joint tenants or tenants by entirety.
Section 471.040 - Insurance policies.
Section 471.050 - Law not retroactive.
Section 471.060 - Law does not apply if decedent provides otherwise.