Paulissen v. US LIFE INS. CO. IN CITY OF NY

How courts have described this case

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

• holding deceased’s HAPE “was not a disorder of a somewhat established or settled character” but “a mere temporary disorder ... arising from sudden and unexpected derangement of the system” (internal quotations and alterations omitted)
• remarking that they “would include the slightest and most temporary ailment”
• applying California law’s distinction “between policies that cover ‘accidental death’ and those that cover death by ‘accidental means’ ”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).