Metropolitan Life Insurance v. DeNicola

This bill in equity to set aside and avoid a policy of life insurance containing the incontestability clause hereinafter quoted, issued by the plaintiff on October 1, 1939, on the ground that the insured, Giuseppe DeNicola, obtained the policy by false representations, was filed on July 28, 1941, in his lifetime. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. Burno, 309 Mass. 7. Jefferson Standard Life Ins. Co. v. Keeton, 292 Fed. 53. New York Life Ins. Co. v. Seymour, 45 Fed. (2d) 47, 73 Am. L. R. 1523. American Life Ins. Co. v. Stewart, 300 U. S. 203, 111 Am. L. R. 1268. New York Life Ins. Co. v. Truesdale,…