Legal Opinion
Fiala v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 5, 2008PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Herman Cahn, J.), entered January 31, 2007, which, in an action arising out of the demutualization of defendant life insurance company, granted plaintiffs’ motion for class action certification as to their claims under Insurance Law § 7312 and denied certification as to their claims for common-law fraud, unanimously modified, on the facts, to remove plaintiff Mark Smilow as a class representative, and otherwise affirmed, without costs.
The named plaintiffs clearly possess an “adequate understanding of the case” (Rollin v Frankel & Co., 290 AD2d 368, 369…
2Cases cited5 opinions
- Pruitt v. Rockefeller Center Properties, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
- Katz v. NVF Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1984
- Hazelhurst v. Brita Products Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
- Meachum v. Outdoor World Corp.New York Supreme Court · 1996
- Rollin v. Wm. V. Frankel & Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
3Cited by7 opinions
- Pludeman v. Northern Leasing Systems, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2010
- In Re Metlife Demutualization LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2010
- Fiala v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 2010
- In re MetLife Demutualization LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2009
- In re MetLife Demutualization LitigationDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2009
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