Legal Opinion
Rubin v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 22, 1937PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtUntermyer, J.
The basic principles controlling the equitable distribution of divisible surplus in mutual life insurance were fully stated in Rhine v. New York Life Insurance Co. (248 App. Div. *383120; affd. [opinion by Lehman, J.], 273 N. Y. 1). The plaintiff there sued on behalf of herself and all other holders of life insurance policies containing disability benefits, for a judicial determination of the right of the company to pay larger dividends on policies containing death benefits only than upon corresponding policies containing disability benefits. It was held that section 83 of the Insurance Law…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Rhine v. New York Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1936
- Rhine v. New York Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1936
3Cited by6 opinions
- Blackburn v. Home Life InsuranceCalifornia Supreme Court · 1941
- Barnett v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1939
- Maynard v. Mutual Life Ins. Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1942
- Sullivan v. Penn Mut. Life Ins.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1938
- Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States v. KaplanNew York Supreme Court · 1938
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