01 October 2008 01:41
A life insurance company is hesitating at making a US$10 million payout to Heath Ledger's daughter Matilda, lawyers representing Matilda's estate say.
ReliaStar Life Insurance Co. wants to investigate whether the actor died by suicide, which would allow the insurer not to pay. The cororner's report states Heath died from an accidental overdose.
"There's no evidence out there we know of to remotely suggest the death was a suicide," says lawyer William Shernoff, who is working on Matilda's case. "We think it's more of stalling tactic than anything else."
A ReliaStar spokesman said "we have not yet rendered a decision on this claim."