Legal Opinion
Velez-Gomez v. SMA Life Assurance Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 9, 1993No. 93-1430PublishedCited by 89 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CYR, Circuit Judge.
SMA Life Assurance Co. (SMA) seeks to set aside the summary judgment entered in favor of plaintiff appellee Julio Vélez Goméz, contending, inter alia, that the court below incorrectly ruled that the incontestability clause in the SMA disability-income insurance policy issued to Vélez is ambiguous. We vacate the district court judgment and remand for further proceedings.
I
BACKGROUND
The relevant facts are recited in the light most favorable to SMA. O’Connor v. Steeves, 994 F.2d 905, 907 (1st Cir.1993). Vélez was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis around 1983. Sometime in 1986,…
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