Legal Opinion
Cooper v. Berkshire Life Insurance
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided November 14, 2002No. 0154, September Term, 2001PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ON MOTION FOR RECONSIDERATION
ADKINS, Judge.
In 1990, Joseph Cooper (“Cooper”), one of the plaintiffs and appellant here, purchased from Berkshire Life Insurance Company (“Berkshire”), one of the appellees, two “vanishing premium” life insurance polices insuring the lives of himself and his wife Annette Cooper. He did so, he asserts, on the basis of misrepresentations by two insurance agents, Thomas Steinhardt and Bernard Fish, also appellees, that he only would have to pay premiums for ten years. Cooper donated one of the policies to the Associated Jewish Charities of Baltimore (“Associated”),…
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