MUTUAL LIFE v. INSURANCE COMM.

No. 103, Sept. Term, 1996.

723 A.2d 891 (1999)

352 Md. 561

The MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK v. INSURANCE COMMISSIONER FOR THE STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 9, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barrett W. Freedlander, Baltimore, for petitioner.

Dennis W. Carroll, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

David M. Funk, Bryan D. Bolton, Steven Jared Troy, Funk and Bolton, P.A., Baltimore, for Amici Curiae Paul Revere Life Ins. Co., Provident Life and Acc. Ins. Co. and Union Central Life Ins. Co.

Phillip E. Stano, American Council of Life Ins., Washington, DC, Debra A. Cohn, Health Ins. Ass'n of America, Washington, DC, Rita M. Theisen, Rocco N. Covino, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P., Washington, DC, for Amici Curiae American Council of Life Ins. and Health Ins. Ass'n of America.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, RAKER and WILNER, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this case to decide whether an insurer may lawfully deny a disability claim, more than two years after the issuance of a disability insurance policy, on the ground that the disabling condition manifested itself prior to the effective date of the insurance policy, where the policy contains a statutorily required incontestability clause providing that no claim shall be denied on the ground that a disease or physical...

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