Legal Opinion
Connecticut General Life Ins. v. McClelland
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided February 8, 1938No. 7368PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MOORMAN, Circuit Judge.
Suit was brought by the appellant to cancel the total and permanent disability provisions in an insurance policy issued to the appellee. The ground of the action was that the appellee in his application for the insurance had made materially false and fraudulent answers to questions asked him by appellant’s medical examiner upon which the appellant relied in issuing the policy.
*446The policy was a combination policy of life and endowment insurance, with disability benefits. We regard it as a single contract with separable obligations in respect to the different kinds of…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Stroehmann v. Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NYSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- United States v. Northern Pacific Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
- Lane v. Pueblo of Santa RosaSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. KaufmanCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1935
- Horwitz v. New York Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1935
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Terry v. New York Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1939
- Hesselberg v. Aetna Life Ins. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1939
- Klanian v. New York Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1942
- New York Life Insurance v. RotmanSupreme Court of Iowa · 1942
- Occidental Life Ins. Co. of California v. KielhornDistrict Court, W.D. Michigan · 1951
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