Legal Opinion
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance v. Schwartz
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 21, 1991PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Harold Tompkins, J.), entered February 8, 1990, which, inter alia, granted the plaintiff insurer’s motion for summary judgment rescinding the policy, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Plaintiff Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company brought this action to rescind a $100,000 life insurance policy issued on the life of defendants’ decedent, Paul Schwartz, in 1987. On May 11, 1988 Schwartz died of a massive myocardial infarction. A routine claim investigation in connection with his insurance application revealed that decedent…
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