Legal Opinion
Russo v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 9, 1998PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Walter J. Relihan, Jr., J.
The plaintiff, Marie Russo, seeks to become the representative of a class which includes all who purchased a special category of whole life policies, described as N-Pay or Flex Pay contracts, between January 1, 1983 and December 31, 1996. The sales, plaintiff alleges, were induced by written illustrations which falsely represented that the premiums necessary to support the continuance of the insurance would cease, or “vanish”, after a fixed number of annual payments had been made. In years following the sale, Russo and other members of the class…
2Cases cited11 opinions
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