Legal Opinion
Sugarman v. New England Mutual Life Insurance
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided January 9, 1962No. Civ. A. No. 18817PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DOOLING, District Judge.
The widow and children of Herbert Sugarman, claiming that he died by an accident that fatally activated a pre-existing but dormant and undetected physical weakness, sue the defendant insurance company on its promise to pay them, as the beneficiaries of a life insurance policy on Sugarman’s life, an additional benefit of $6,000 upon receipt of due proof
“that the death of the Insured was due to bodily injury effected solely through external, violent and accidental means, which injury (except in the case * * * of internal injury revealed by an autopsy) is evidenced by a…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Insurance Co. v. MosleySupreme Court of the United States · 1869
- Silverstein v. Metropolitan Life InsuranceNew York Court of Appeals · 1930
- Williams v. AlexanderNew York Court of Appeals · 1955
- People v. . Del VermoNew York Court of Appeals · 1908
- McGrail v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1944
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Scholle v. Continental National American GroupAppellate Court of Illinois · 1977
- Orman v. Prudential Insurance Co. of AmericaSupreme Court of Minnesota · 1980
- Mers v. Marriott International Group Accidental Death & Dismemberment PlanDistrict Court, N.D. Illinois · 1996
- Ajnoha v. JC Penney Life InsuranceDistrict Court, E.D. New York · 2007
- Amend v. Equitable Life Assurance Co. of United StatesCivil Court of the City of New York · 1972
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