Legal Opinion
Popkin v. National Benefit Life Insurance
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided April 27, 1989No. 86 Civ. 4109 (WCC)PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
WILLIAM C. CONNER, District Judge:
Defendant National Benefit Life Insurance (“National Benefit”) moves to dismiss the Complaint and for summary judgment pursuant to Rules 12 and 56, Fed.R.Civ.P. The motion is granted in part, and denied in part.
BACKGROUND
In 1972, plaintiff Gerald H. Popkin (“Pop-kin”) was asked by the Alumni Association of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (“Amherst”) to start a group life insurance program as a means of raising money to support its activities. Initially, Popkin and Amherst engaged Bankers Security Life Insurance Society as the group…
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