Legal Opinion

Reznikoff v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States

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

Decided December 29, 1943PublishedCited by 14 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Appeal from an order granting plaintiff’s motion that the court adopt the advisory verdict of the jury, and from *786the judgment entered thereon in favor of the plaintiff in an action to reform a policy of disability insurance and to recover thereunder. The complaint alleged a cause of action in reformation and a second cause of action based on the estoppel of the defendant to set up> a defense of misrepresentation, and upon the immateriality of the representations. The defendant counterclaimed for rescission because of the plaintiff’s failure to state in his application that he had been…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Geer v. Union Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1937
  2. Minsker v. John Hancock Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
  3. Curtis v. . AlbeeNew York Court of Appeals · 1901
  4. Goldstein v. New York Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1917
  5. Goldstein v. . New York Life Insurance CompanyNew York Court of Appeals · 1919

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3Cited by14 opinions

  1. Process Plants Corp. v. Beneficial National Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1976
  2. Wageman v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1965
  3. Tannenbaum v. Provident Mutual Life InsuranceAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1976
  4. Greene v. United Mutual Life InsuranceNew York Supreme Court · 1963
  5. Brayer v. John Hancock Mut Life InsuranceCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1950

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