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Kochanek v. Prudential Insurance Co. of America

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided January 6, 1928PublishedCited by 36 opinions

1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.

This action of contract to recover the amount due upon a life insurance policy, issued on April 22,1922, by the Prudential Insurance Company of America to Katie Nalepa upon her life, is before this court on report by a judge of the Superior Court. The plaintiff is the beneficiary named in the policy.

The record does not disclose when the assured delivered her policy to an agent of the insurance company for transmission to the home office of that company, and signed and sent to the insurance company a “proper written notice” of the change in the beneficiary which she had determined to make. The…

2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Freund v. FreundIllinois Supreme Court · 1905
  2. Fink v. . FinkNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
  3. Supreme Council of Royal Arcanum v. BehrendSupreme Court of the United States · 1918
  4. Marsh v. Supreme Council American Legion of HonorMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1889
  5. Douglass v. Equitable Life Assur. Soc.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1922

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3Cited by36 opinions

  1. Bradley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1944
  2. Breckline v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1962
  3. Cleary v. ClearyMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1998
  4. Goldman v. MosesMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934
  5. Resnek v. Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New YorkMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1934

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