Sonnen v. AmerUs Life Insurance
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
*223MEMORANDUM*
Claudia Sonnen appeals the district court’s grant of summary judgment to AmerUs Life Insurance Company on her action to recover life insurance benefits upon the death of her husband, Patrick Sonnen. We affirm.
Under the law of the State of Oregon,1 the district court did not err when it determined that the evidence would not support a determination that a binding life insurance contract had been formed. Rather than accept Mr. Sonnen’s application, AmerUs proposed different terms, and Mr. Sonnen did not, and could not, comply with AmerUs’s terms before it withdrew and returned his…
2Cases cited11 opinions
- Kitzke v. TurnidgeOregon Supreme Court · 1957
- Shaw Wholesale Co. v. HackbarthOregon Supreme Court · 1921
- Pierre Arboireau and Sandrine Arboireau v. Adidas-Salomon Ag, a Foreign Corporation and Adidas America, Inc., a Delaware CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 2003
- City of Canby v. RinkesCourt of Appeals of Oregon · 1995
- Morford v. California Western States Life InsuranceOregon Supreme Court · 1941
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