Legal Opinion
North Atlantic Life Insurance v. Rothman
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 26, 1989PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
In an action to rescind a life insurance policy, the defendant appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Nassau County (Robbins, J.), entered April 26, 1988, which (1) granted the plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, (2) dismissed the defendant’s counterclaims and (3) denied defendant’s cross motion for leave to amend her answer.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The record establishes that both the decedent and the defendant misrepresented the decedent’s history of cigarette smoking on the application for insurance. The application dated July 9, 1984 indicated that the…
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