Rhine v. New York Life Insurance
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the CourtDore, J.
Plaintiff, as holder of one of defendant’s insurance • policies containing both life and disability insurance, sues under section 195 of the Civil Practice Act on behalf of herself and all other holders of similar policies issued by defendant between 1917 and 1934. The question presented is whether, during the years 1931 to 1935, the defendant failed to apportion equitably its divisible surplus among its policies or made an unlawful discrimination when it paid smaller dividends on its policies providing life and disability insurance than on policies, otherwise similar, providing only life…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Greeff v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United StatesNew York Court of Appeals · 1899
- Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States v. BrownSupreme Court of the United States · 1909
- People v. Security Life Insurance & Annuity Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1879
- Uhlman v. . New York Life Ins. Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1888
- Cohen v. . N.Y. Mutual Life Insurance Co.New York Court of Appeals · 1872
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