Legal Opinion
Depositors Trust Co. v. Farm Family Life Insurance Co.
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Decided June 3, 1982PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKUSICK, Chief Justice.
In Superior Court (Kennebec County) plaintiff Depositors Trust Company won a general jury verdict for $100,000 against defendant on a life insurance policy. The Superior Court denied plaintiff’s motion for penalty interest and attorney fees under 24-A M.R.S.A. § 2436 (Supp.1981), and plaintiff appeals. Defendant cross appeals, seeking to have the judgment set aside on various grounds of error. We deny both the appeal and the cross-appeal, and affirm the judgment in all respects.
Prior to his death in an automobile accident on November 2,1977, Brainard E. Cav-erly III…
2Cases cited10 opinions
- Kukuska v. Home Mutual Hail-Tornado InsuranceWisconsin Supreme Court · 1931
- Funk v. Franklin Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1968
- Burnham v. Bankers Life & Casualty CompanyUtah Supreme Court · 1970
- London v. SmartSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1928
- Norma L. Bruegger, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. National Old Line Insurance Company, Defendant-Appellant-Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1976
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Cardente v. Fleet Bank of Maine, Inc.District Court, D. Maine · 1992
- County Forest Products, Inc. v. Green Mountain Agency, Inc.Supreme Judicial Court of Maine · 2000
- Maine Mutual Fire Insurance v. WatsonSupreme Judicial Court of Maine · 1987
- Federal Insurance v. Maine Yankee Atomic Power Co.District Court, D. Maine · 2001
- Anderson v. Virginia Sur. Co., Inc.District Court, D. Maine · 1998
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