Legal Opinion
Markarian v. Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided August 13, 2001No. C.A. 96-10421-MLWPublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
WOLF, District Judge.
I. SUMMARY
Plaintiff Mark Markarian (“Markarian”) brought this putative class action on behalf of individuals who purchased certain types of life insurance policies from Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company (“Connecticut Mutual”)1 between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 1992. Markarian alleges that Connecticut Mutual intentionally engaged in *61deceptive sales practices by having agents use a “vanishing premium” sales strategy to sell life insurance policies.
The type of policy at issue in this case has been known both as the “Modified Paid-Up Option”…
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