Suppose it were legal to gamble on the time someone else is going to die. It is, if you invest in a life insurance product called a viatical. When the sister of a law firm client dies in her sleep of carbon monoxide poisoning because of an apparently malfunctioning hot water heater, third year law student Elliot Lerner is asked to determine whether anyone could be held responsible in a wrongful death lawsuit. As he looks into the circumstances surrounding...