Legal Opinion

Landau v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

Appellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York

Decided June 9, 1938Published

1Per curiam

The clause in the policy exempting disability benefits from incontestability is not ambiguous and was regarded as sufficient in (Apter v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc., 271 N. Y. 653; Kushman v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc., 253 App. Div. 921; Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. Deem, 91 Fed. [2d] 569).

Judgment reversed, with thirty dollars costs, and complaint dismissed on the merits, with costs.

All concur. Present — Hammer, Shientag and Noonan, JJ.

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Apter v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1936
  2. Kushman v. Equitable Life Assurance SocietyAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1938