Beard v. American Agency Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• concluding that “the incontestability statute serves the substantial public interest in protecting claimants from the possibility of expensive litigation”
• finding that incontestability clause does not apply to an insurance policy that is void ab initio because “[t]he invocation of an incontestability provision presupposes a basically valid contract.”
• stating that courts have considered “several factors as influential in determining whether in a particular case a [business] partnership relationship is of the type which would give rise to an insurable interest among the partners.”
• stating that courts have considered “several factors as influential in determining whether in a particular case a [business] partnership relationship is of the type which would give rise to an insurable interest among the partners.”
• “the incontestability statute serves the substantial public interest in protecting claimants from the possibility of expensive litigation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).