Sask. high court upholds decision to not pay insurance to estate of man who died of drug overdose

Val Jantzen is angry that two insurance companies continued to take premiums from her son while knowing that he was addicted to cocaine, and then denied coverage after he died of a cocaine overdose in 2018.

“They were well aware of his lifestyle, his addiction,” she said in an interview.

“They didn’t do anything about it. They just continued to take his premiums. They never addressed it. They didn’t put an addendum on his insurance policy.”

Val’s son Josh Jantzen had two policies, one for mortgage insurance and one for a line of credit, to ensure those debts would be paid out in the