Legal Opinion

Kane v. Union Mutual Life Insurance

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided December 31, 1981PublishedCited by 18 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

OPINION OF THE COURT

2Per curiam

In 1970 a group annuity contract plan was entered into by defendant Union Mutual Life Insurance Company (hereinafter Union Mutual) and Maimonides Medical Center as contract holder. On April 25, 1972 Union Mutual issued its certificate to Alan Kane, M.D., which named him as a participant in that group annuity plan and which *149contained the following designation of beneficiaries: “Wife, Mrs. June W. Kane, In [sic] the event her death precedes mine equally to Eric P. Kane and Daniel A. Kane as beneficiaries”.

The certificate had originally been issued on April 4, 1972 with the…

3Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Hellenberg v. District Number One of the Independent Order of BerithNew York Court of Appeals · 1884
  2. Fink v. . FinkNew York Court of Appeals · 1902
  3. Cook v. CookCalifornia Supreme Court · 1941
  4. Robert C. Sears and Lavonne Stern v. Karen AustinCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1961
  5. Greenfield v. Massachusetts Mutual Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1937

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4Cited by18 opinions

  1. Krishna v. Colgate Palmolive Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1993
  2. McCarthy v. Aetna Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1998
  3. Lopez v. Massachusetts Mutual Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1991
  4. Lincoln Life & Annuity Co. v. CaswellAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2006
  5. In re the Estate of JaccomaAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1988

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