According to a blurb on the Star-Telegram website from the Associated Press “Cory Lidle's beneficiaries could lose out on a $1.5 million benefit from baseball's benefit plan if it's determined that he was piloting his plane when it crashed into a Manhattan high-rise condominium.”
Part of the MLB Association’s benefit plan is a “$450,000 life insurance benefit and an accidental death benefit of $1.05 million.” However the problem for the family is the plan “excludes "’any incident related to travel in an aircraft ... while acting in any capacity other than as a passenger.’"
I for one hope the Lidle family took out personal life insurance on Cory, that they informed the insurance company of the fact that Cory was a pilot and of his flying frequency. Insurance companies vary as to whether they cover pilots but as an applicant you want to let the company know you are a pilot or you risk your family not receiving the death benefit. Consdering Cory had a wife and four children it would a further tragedy if they were left with no insurance benefits.
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