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48.18.375  <<  48.18.390 >>   48.18.400

Simultaneous deathsPayment of proceedsLife insurance.

Where the individual insured and the beneficiary designated in a life insurance policy or policy insuring against accidental death have died and there is not 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, unless otherwise expressly provided in the policy.
[1947 c 79 § .18.39; Rem. Supp. 1947 § 45.18.39.]

NOTES:

Simultaneous death, uniform act: Chapter 11.05A RCW.
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