Legal Opinion
Penn Mutual Life Insurance v. Abramson
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 15, 1987No. 86-1735PublishedCited by 34 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEBEKER, Associate Judge, Retired:
This opinion results from a question of law certified to this court by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit pursuant to D.C.Code § 11-723 (1987 Supp.). We have been asked by that court to determine under District of Columbia law whether the life insurance policy of Abdur Rahman Y. Ibn-Tamas (the insured) may be reformed to designate as a beneficiary the insured’s son, Adam Y. Ibn-Tamas, who was bom to the insured’s second wife five months after his death in February 1976. For the reasons discussed below, it is our view that…
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