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===Life insurance=== {{See also|Travel insurance}} From the 1950s until the 1970s, vending machines were used at American airports to sell [[life insurance]] policies covering death, in case the buyer's flight crashed.<ref name="ABA Journal p. 472">{{cite book | title=ABA Journal | date=May 1967 | publisher=American Bar Association | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Okt_JPJ6bYgC&pg=PA472 | access-date=6 June 2017 | page=472}}</ref> However, this practice gradually disappeared due to the tendency of American courts to strictly construe such policies against their sellers, such as the Fidelity and Casualty Company of New York (which later became part of [[CNA Financial]]).<ref name="vend">[http://online.ceb.com/calcases/C2/58C2d862.htm Steven v. Fidelity & Casualty Co.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017195922/http://online.ceb.com/calcases/C2/58C2d862.htm |date=17 October 2015 }} (1962) 58 C2d 862</ref>
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