Beneficial Homeowner Service Corp. v. Mason

Mercure, J.P.

Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Becker, J.), entered June 15, 2011 in Delaware County, which granted plaintiffs motion to dismiss defendants’ counterclaims.

In 2009, Kevin D. Mason (hereinafter decedent) purchased a mortgage life insurance policy from First Central Life Insurance Company to cover the balance due to plaintiff under a mortgage agreement between plaintiff and decedent in the event of his death. When decedent died shortly thereafter, First Central refused to pay benefits under the policy. Defendant Michele Mason, the administrator of decedent’s estate, then…