Legal Opinion
Fuller v. INA Life Insurance
New York Supreme Court
Decided September 27, 1988PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Peter P. Cusick, J.
This litigation involves a common-law action for breach of an insurance contract. It is alleged that defendant INA Life Insurance Company of New York has breached the terms of its policy by failing to pay the plaintiff beneficiary certain accidental death benefits which have accrued as a result of the death of her husband, the insured. Defendant’s position is that *465the decedent’s death was not accidental as defined in the policy.
The defendant now moves to amend its answer to include the affirmative defense of the applicability of the Employees Retirement…
2Cases cited12 opinions
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- Pilot Life Insurance v. DedeauxSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Curtis v. LoetherSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- 423 South Salina Street, Inc. v. City of SyracuseNew York Court of Appeals · 1986
- Pollock v. CastrovinciDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1979
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Head v. Central Reserve Life of North America InsuranceMontana Supreme Court · 1993
- Fuller v. Connecticut General Life InsuranceDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1990
- Baker v. Universal Die Casting, Inc.District Court, W.D. Arkansas · 1989
- Walker v. Sperry & Hutchinson Co.New York Supreme Court · 1989
- Midwest Security Life Insurance v. StroupIndiana Supreme Court · 2000
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