General Laws

[ Text of section effective until March 31, 2012. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 8. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44 as amended by 2010, 409, Sec. 23 and 2011, 224.]

  Section 4. Where the insured and the beneficiary in a policy or contract of life or endowment insurance or insurance against accident have died and there is no sufficient evidence that they have died otherwise than simultaneously the proceeds of the policy or contract shall be payable as if the insured had survived the beneficiary.