Legal Opinion
Meyer v. United States Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 31, 1992PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
— Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Alice Schlesinger, J.), entered March 19, *6441991, which granted defendants’ motions for summary judgment dismissing the complaint, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
While the failure of an insurer and its agent to follow Insurance Department Regulations when issuing a replacement life insurance policy for an existing policy may estop them from raising as a defense to liability under the replacement policy, the insured’s material misrepresentation on the application therefor (Tannenbaum v Provident Mut. Life Ins. Co., 41 NY2d 1087), we agree with…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- S. J. Capelin Associates, Inc. v. Globe Manufacturing Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1974
- Trainor v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1981
- Farley v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1987
3Cited by1 opinion
- Dani Michaels, Inc. v. Design 2000, New York Ltd.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2004