Legal Opinion
Lelia Grace Fisher v. The United States Life Insurance Company in City of New York, a Body Corporate
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided November 8, 1957No. 7400_1PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit upon a group life insurance policy. In accordance with the well considered views expressed in a written opinion, judgment was entered for the defendant upon a verdict of a jury which found that the plaintiff’s decedent was not an employee of a named employer within the meaning of the insuring clauses of the policy. Fisher v. United States Life Insurance Company in the City of New York, D.C., 145 F.Supp. 646. The beneficiary, by this appeal, asserts that the defense is unavailable under the terms of the incontestable clause and that her motion for…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Boseman v. Connecticut General Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Matter of Met. Life Ins. Co. v. ConwayNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
- John Hancock Mut. Life Ins. Co. v. DormanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1939
- Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. DeemCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1937
- Rasmussen v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietyMichigan Supreme Court · 1940
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3Cited by33 opinions
- Simpson v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
- Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company v. MorseTexas Supreme Court · 1972
- Vogel v. Independence Federal Savings BankDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1990
- Crawford v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesIllinois Supreme Court · 1973
- Layman v. Continental Assurance Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1964
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