Simpson v. Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance

Decided April 9, 1969. Kenneth B. Keating wrote the opinion for the court.

24 N.Y.2d 262 · Cited 57 times

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• Matter of Met. Life Ins. Co. v. Conway · 169 N.E. 642
• Romano v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 2 N.E.2d 661
• Equitable Life Assurance Society v. Florence · 47 Ga. App. 711
• Baum v. Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. · 357 P.2d 960
• Rasmussen v. Equitable Life Assurance Society · 292 N.W. 377

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• Baseheart v. Life Insurance Co. of North America · 960 F. Supp. 1210
• Halstead Consultants, Inc. v. Continental Casualty Co. · 891 P.2d 926
• Crawford v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States · 305 N.E.2d 144
• Vogel v. Independence Federal Savings Bank · 728 F. Supp. 1210
• Phoenix Mutual Life Insurance v. Cervera · 524 F. Supp. 70
• Freed v. Bankers Life Insurance Co. of Nebraska · 216 N.W.2d 357
• Burke v. First UNUM Life Ins. Co. · 975 F. Supp. 310
• Suskind v. American Republic Insurance · 458 F. Supp. 680
• Jackson v. Continental Cas. Co. · 412 So. 2d 1364
• Dornberger v. Metropolitan Life Insurance · 961 F. Supp. 506
• Cragun v. Bankers Life Company · 497 P.2d 641
• Home Life Insurance Company v. Regueira · 313 So. 2d 438
• Downing v. Travelers Insurance · 691 P.2d 375
• Maxwell v. Cumberland Life Insurance · 748 P.2d 392
• Bonitz v. Travelers Insurance · 372 N.E.2d 254
• Raifman v. Berkshire Life Insurance · 81 F. Supp. 2d 412
• Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company v. Morse · 487 S.W.2d 317
• Monarch Life Insurance v. Brown · 125 A.D.2d 75
• New England Mutual Life Insurance v. Doe · 710 N.E.2d 1060
• Chrapa v. Johncox · 60 A.D.2d 55
• Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States v. Madis · 240 A.D.2d 100

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