Legal Opinion
Sherman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided May 26, 1937PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLummus, J.
The first case is brought upon a policy of life insurance issued to Irving Sherman by the defendant Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. In a supplementary contract made part of the policy, the company promised “upon receipt by the company at its home office in the city of New York of due proof, on forms which will be furnished by the company, on request, that the insured has, while said policy and this supplementary contract are in full force and prior to the anniversary date of said policy nearest to the sixtieth birthday of the insured, become totally and permanently disabled, as the…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Bergholm v. Peoria Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1932
- Thompson v. Insurance Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Mutual Life Ins. Co. of NY v. JohnsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Williams v. Union Central Life InsuranceSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Rocci v. Massachusetts Accident Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1916
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Stankus v. New York Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- King v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1971
- Belbas v. New York Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1938
- The Mutual Fire, Marine and Inland Insurance Company v. Gerald Costa and Ranger IV Corporation, Appeal of Inland Brokerage Corporation, the Mutual Fire, Marine and Inland Insurance Company v. Gerald Costa and Ranger IV CorporationCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1986
- Barnett v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1939
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