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· 3/6/1990

Unum Life Insurance Company v. United States

Citations

  • 897 F.2d 599
  • 12 Employee Benefits Cas. (BNA) 1084
  • 65 A.F.T.R.2d (RIA) 768
  • 1990 U.S. App. LEXIS 3204
  • 1990 WL 19707

How courts have described this case

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

  • noting that often times an insurance “company (perhaps following state regulators’ properly conservative accounting practices) [will] put aside (as a reserve) considerably more money to pay future benefits than it actually needs”
  • comparing results in Group Life & Health Insurance Co., supra, and Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. United States, supra, based on use of recognized mortality table in the latter case
  • comparing results in Group Life & Health Insurance Co., supra , and Aetna Life Insurance Co. v. United States, supra , based on use of recognized mortality table in the latter case
  • no mortality tables used; the liability in question was \mechanically calculated similarly to a typical bank account\
  • no mortality tables used; the liability in question was “mechanically calculated similarly to a typical bank account”

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Judges: Bownes, Brown, Breyer

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