Legal Opinion
Goodwin v. Hartford Life Insurance Company
District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania
Decided January 8, 1973No. Civ. A. 71-1070PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
McCUNE, District Judge.
The plaintiff, the widow of Robert P. Goodwin, claims the proceeds of a life insurance policy which allegedly covered her deceased husband, Robert P. Goodwin, who died on November 28, 1970. The policy in question was a Group Insurance Policy, No. GL-9067, originally dated January 4, 1962, issued to cover the employees of the Ever-Soft Company of Pennsylvania, Inc. (herein “Ever-Soft”). The Pennsylvania law governs.
The issues are numerous as will be observed later on. The first issue is whether decedent was an eligible employee of Ever-Soft at the time…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Phoenix Life Ins. Co. v. RaddinSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Caldwell v. Fire Ass'nSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1896
- Taylor v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of New Hampshire · 1965
- Love v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1951
- First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co. v. United States Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1969
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3Cited by3 opinions
- Goodwin v. Hartford Life Insurance CompanyDistrict Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1973
- In re Reading Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1975
- Matter of Reading CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1975