Legal Opinion
Washington National Insurance Company v. J. D. Burch
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided September 15, 1959No. 17566_1PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMERON, Circuit Judge.
The determinent question upon which decision of this appeal rests is this: Where suit is brought by a beneficiary named in a certificate issued under a group insurance policy against the insurer which executed the master policy, is the insurer prevented by the incontestable clause of the master policy from defending upon the ground that the insured was not eligible for insurance under the terms of the master policy; or, if he was so eligible, that he was not entitled to be classified in the group to which the certificate assigned him?
Appellant Washington National…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Boseman v. Connecticut General Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Matter of Met. Life Ins. Co. v. ConwayNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
- Lelia Grace Fisher v. The United States Life Insurance Company in City of New York, a Body CorporateCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1957
- New York Life Ins. Co. v. BennionCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1946
- Ellis Carp v. California-Western States Life Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1958
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3Cited by20 opinions
- Simpson v. Phoenix Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1969
- Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company, a Massachusetts Corporation v. Kenneth B. FormanCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1975
- Crawford v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesIllinois Supreme Court · 1973
- Baum v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1960
- Robert J. Keaten v. The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, a Massachusetts CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1981
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