Echaide v. Confederation of Canada Life Insurance

TUTTLE, Circuit Judge:

This is another in a growing list of cases'involving insurance policies issued in Cuba, prior to Fidel Castro’s takeover there in 1959, upon which claimants in the United States seek to recover. Plaintiffs here, claiming as assignees of the original insured, a Cuban resident, were awarded summary judgment by the district court. We reverse.

Appellant is a Canadian insurance corporation authorized to do business in Florida and which has, since 1908, maintained a business office in Havana, Cuba. .Some time prior to 1950 appellant issued in Havana a life pension policy to…