Key legal question
Whether the tsunami-related experience qualified as an accident / shock event under accident insurance law.
Extracted holding
The insured’s experience formed a single, extraordinary shock event and therefore qualified as an accident.
Extracted reasoning
The event must be assessed as a whole: although she did not see the first wave on land, she remained exposed on the boat and during the dangerous return to shore and inland. The overall situation involved exceptional fear and life-threatening circumstances.