WEISS v. LA SUISSE

No. 97 CIV. 1352(CM)(MDF).

260 F.Supp.2d 644 (2003)

Kalman WEISS, as Assignee, et al., Plaintiffs, v. LA SUISSE, Societe D'Assurances Sur La Vie, a/k/a La Suisse, Lebens-Versicherungsgelsellschaft, Lausanne a/k/a/ La Suisse Life Insurance Company, Lausanne, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

April 22, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard M. Mahon, Drake, sommers, Loev, Tarhis & Catania, P.C., Newburg, Rachell Sirota, Sirota & Sirota LLP, NY, for Hershy Meisels, Yida Weinstock, Chaim M. Rubin, Samuel M. Stern, Moshe Herman, Binie Vizel fka Bini Schwartz, Blima Rosenfeld fka Blima Green, Herman Freund, Idy Weinberger fka Idy Samet, Devorah Herskovits fka Devorah Mermelstein, Avrum Yitschok Gluck, Ester Ekstein fka Ester Zoldan, Mosha Grunfeld, Miriam Klein fka Miriam Leonorovitz, David Rubinfeld, Isaac Goldberger, Shara Yides Salamon fka Yides Rosenbaum, Chavi Engel, Rochama Askenazi, Jacob Hillman, David Fried, Arthur Gluck, As Assignee, Shimon Hirsch, As Parent and Natural Guardian of Moishe Hirsch, A Minor, Abraham Wieder, As Parent and Natural Guardian of Leah Wieder, A Minor, Abraham Wieder, As Parent and Natural Guardian of David Wieder, A Minor, Mordchai Kaufman, As Parent and Natural Guardian of Slava Kaufman, A Minor, Solomon Rubin, As Parent and Natural Guardian of Mendel Rubin, A Minor, Moses Epstein, Cheskel Lunger, As Parent and Natural Guardian of Shmiel Lunger, A Minor, Kalman Weiss, As Assignee, plaintiffs.

Richard N. Chassin, Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffly, Richard Niles Chassin, Becker, Glynn, Melamed & Muffly LLP, New York, for La Suisse aka La Suisse, Lebens-Versicherungs-Gesellschaft, Lausanne aka La Suisse Life Insurance Company, Lausanne, Swiss Life aka Swiss Life Insurance and Annuity Company aka Schweizerische Lebensversicherungsund Rentenanstalt, defendants.


MEMORANDUM DECISION AND ODER DENYING DEFENDANT'S MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMARY JUDGMENT

McMAHON, District Judge.

Plaintiffs, thirty members of New York's Chassidic communities, bring this action against defendant La Suisse, a Swiss insurance company, under 42 U.S.C. § 1981 ("Section 1981") as well as several contract-related state law claims. This decision is the fifth in a series of decisions dating back to September of 1999. See Weiss v. La Suisse...

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