Legal Opinion
Niccoli v. Monarch Life Insurance
New York Supreme Court
Decided May 25, 1972PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtThomas Russell Jones, J.
The plaintiff is a physician and surgeon, specializing in the private and hospital practice of obstetrics and gynecology. He brings this action to recover the sum of $10,677.34 under a policy of health and accident insurance issued to him by the defendant company in 1964. The policy entitled plaintiff to receive $770 per month for 24 months during any period when he was totally disabled. Total disability was defined in the contract as occurring whenever plaintiff suffered ‘ ‘ complete inability to engage in his regular occupation.” In February, 1967, the plaintiff suffered a heart attack and…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Lewis v. Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corp.New York Court of Appeals · 1918
- McGrail v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1944
- Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. SpencerSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1930
- Ayres v. New York Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1951
- George Graves Dixon v. Pacific Mutual Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1959
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Paul Shapiro, Plaintiff-Appellee-Cross-Appellant v. Berkshire Life Insurance Company, Appellant-Cross-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 2000
- Dawes v. First Unum Life InsuranceDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1994
- Robert Goldberger v. Paul Revere Life Insurance Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1999
- Brumer v. National Life of VermontDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1995
- Klein v. National Life of VermontDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 1998
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