Frances Krauss v. Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York

MESKILL, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Cannella, J., dismissing a complaint seeking the unpaid balance of the death benefit allegedly due under a group life insurance policy.1 In an earlier opinion, Krauss v. Manhattan Life Insurance Co., 643 F.2d 98 (2d Cir.1981) (Krauss I), we held that the law of Illinois rather than New York governed the issue of whether the insurer, Manhattan Life Insurance Company of New York (Manhattan Life), could raise as a defense the insured’s alleged ineligibility for…