Boseman v. Connecticut General Life Insurance

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that delivery of the certificate in Texas had no bearing upon the question whether Texas or another state’s law applies
• stating that a certificate of insurance \served merely as evidence of the insurance of the employee\
• holding that a certificate is not “necessary to” the insurance when it does “not affect any of the terms of the policy,” i.e., when the insured’s rights and the insurer’s liabilities “would have been the same if the policy had not provided for issue of the certificate”
• while a COI “is not part of the contract of, or necessary to, the insurance,” it does serve “as evidence of the insurance”
• employee furnished with certificate informing him of insurance to which he was entitled under group policy obtained through employer’s negotiation
• “But the certificate is not a part of the contract of, or necessary to, the insurance.... It did not affect any of the terms of the policy.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).