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Jun17
Insurance Company Does Not Have To Pay For Babies Deaths
In Arkansas 1998 two babies 16 month old Vicky Crisp and 4 month old Sidney Pippin were left unattended in hot weather in a car with the windows rolled up. The insurancejournal.com reported these two babies died as a result and the survivors sought payment from AIG Centennial Insurance Company.  The two men, Ricky L. Crisp and Justin Avery Griffith were subsequently tried and sentenced to 14 and 10-year prison terms.

The insurance policy was sold to Vicky’s grandfather.  After the request was made AIG “asked a federal judge to rule that it did not have to honor the request.” 

The presiding federal judge said “the company wasn't obligated to pay the claims because AIG wasn't given notice of the loss "as soon as possible.''


This decision was upheld by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis “saying that almost two years had elapsed since the girls' deaths before the survivors sought payment from AIG.”


This is such a sad situation for all involved.  I can’t fathom how a Father could leave his own child in a car, windows rolled up during a scorching hot day.  I also do not understand why the surviving relatives waited two years to make a claim.  I am left speechless in all respects to this case.

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