clause would be meaningless if the death were not an accident under the policy, since “[d]eath is never caused by medical treatment absent some misdiagnosis or mistake.” When the death results, as in the instant case, because proper medical treatment is unsuccessful, the death is caused by the preexisting infirmity. See Senkier, 948 F.2d at 1053. Not only does Whetsell rest on South Carolina law, it is not inconsistent with our result. Id. at 957. Adopting the Seventh Circuit’s analysis, we find no principled basis on which to disassociate Mr. Thomas’s iatrogenic injury from the disease complications of his obesity. As in Senkier, his death was the foreseeable result of treatment for his disease. The decision in Todd v. AIG Life Ins. Co. is distinguishable, 47 F.3d 1448 (5th Cir.1995) (<HOLDING>). The death in that case was not a foreseeable
holding that an insureds personal belief that he was not liable for an accident provided no basis for submitting the question of the reasonableness of his delay in notification to a jury when the insured knew the day after the accident that it had been claimed that the cable he had installed had caused the accident holding that an unintended death resulting from autoerotic asphyxiation was an accident holding that a police officers deposition testimony in another individuals wrongful death suit was not protected speech where the testimony merely parroted the contents of an accident report generated in the normal course of his duties as an accident investigator holding that an accident under a liability insurance policy occurs when the resulting damage was an event that takes place without the insureds foresight or expectation  holding a wrongful death action may not be maintained for the death of an unborn child