Legal Opinion

Herman v. Provident Mutual Life Insurance

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided September 29, 1989No. 722, Docket 88-7876PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

CARD AMONE, Circuit Judge:

This appeal involves a dispute over 1.35 million dollars in insurance proceeds derived from certain life insurance contracts taken out on the life of a law firm’s leading partner — a partner who died shortly after his firm dissolved. When sorrow strikes a thriving law firm, its happiness goes down and, at least in this case, its demise has tragic overtones because the present litigation over the insurance proceeds sets the insured’s former law partners against his surviving daughters.

Appellants are Paul Frank, Stanley Fut-terman, Peyton Moss, Eric Rosenfeld, and Eric…

2Cases cited14 opinions

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Knight v. U.S. Fire Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1986
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3Cited by1 opinion

Susan Herman, Lucy Prashker and Martha Prashker v. The Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company of Philadelphia, and Counterclaimant v. Edward A. Brill, Carmel P. Ebb, Paul R. Frank, Stanley Futterman, Murray Gartner, William E. Malarkey, Peyton H. Moss, Eric Rosenfeld and Eric D. Witkin, Counterclaim and Certain Cross-Claimants, Edward A. Brill, William E. Malarkey, Carmel P. Ebb, Counterclaim and Certain Cross-Claimants Paul R. Frank, Stanley Futterman, Peyton H. Moss, Eric Rosenfeld and Eric D. Witkin, Cross-Claimants-Appellants v. Susan Herman, Lucy Prashker and Martha Prashker, as Co-Executrices Under the Last Will and Testament of Herbert Prashker, and Murray Gartner, Cross-Claim Murray Gartner, Cross-ClaimCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1989