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... the benefit of Ledger's three-year-old daughter, Matilda, has sued ReliaStar Life Insurance Company on the grounds that the company is avoiding paying the policy proceeds by continuing to investigate whether Ledger's death in ... claims that two provisions entitle it to investigate the circumstances of Ledger's death: the "incontestability" clause, which gives ReliaStar the right to contest the validity of the policy "based on material misrepresentations made in the initial application" for a period ...

... for $10 Million Policy" and the case, with a link on the WVBLB post is LaViolette v. ReliaStar Life Insurance Company, Civil Action No. 2:08-CV-05514 (C.D. Cal. 2008). The Estate alleges "post-mortem underwriting, delaying payment on the policy while it ... WVBLB, the actor's death was ruled accidental although abuse of prescription medications was mentioned. The insurer claims that since the actor died within the "two-year incontestability period," its investigation is legitimate. ...

... could reasonably be expected and thus was not accidental. In Eckelberry v. ReliaStar life Insurance Company, 469 F.3d 340 (4th Cir. 2006), the court ... reversed and found that Eckelberry's death was not an accident (even though ReliaStar's plan, which uses "unexpected" and "foresee[able]" in defining an accident, ... rules of the road require. This case, in short, affords us no basis for concluding that ReliaStar's denial of benefits was unreasonable." My problem with (the Fourth Circuit's opinion ...

... 27, 2009 By Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp "Martin Flumenbaum and Brad S. Karp, partners at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, discuss ReliaStar Life Insurance Company of New York v. EMC National Life Company, where ... patentee's claim for failing to satisfy the requirement that a "single entity" has infringed, not two or more companies working cooperatively, a requirement confirmed and clarified by the Federal Circuit relatively recently." OUTSIDE COUNSEL: ...

... Global Arbitration Review published an interesting article about a recent case, ReliaStar Life Ins. Co, of N.Y. v. EMC Nat'l Life Co., No. 07-0828 (2nd Cir. Apr. 9, 2009). As previously blogged here, in ReliaStar, the Second Circuit held that inclusion in an arbitration agreement of a broad statement that each party will bear ... arbitration, ADR, law, Second Circuit, attorney's fees, arbitrator's fees, ReliaStar addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fwww.karlbayer.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D3353'; addthis_title ...

ReliaStar Life Insurance Co. v EMC National Life Company,* USCA, 2nd Circuit, Docket No. 07-0828-cv A typical provision in an agreement to arbitrate a dispute provides that in the event a dispute is submitted to arbitration, "each will bear the...

Two insurance companies, National Travelers and ReliaStar, disagreed about whether Coinsurance Agreements between them had terminated. The arbitration that the Coinsurance Agreements mandated generated a finding of non-termination and a $ ... in the arbitration in bad faith and that such a sanction may include an award of attorney's or arbitrator's fees." ReliaStar Life Ins. Co. of New York v. EMC Nat'l Life Co., No. 07-0828-cv, slip op. at 8 (2d Cir. Apr. 9, 2009). The majority also concluded that ...

... . As required by the contract, Torah Academy was an additional insured under a liability insurance policy issued to WCH and various related companies by Admiral. However, contrary to the provision in the contract that ... afforded, resort to extrinsic evidence was not proper (see Katz v American Mayflower Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 14 AD3d 195, 200, affd 5 NY3d 561; ... policy did not provide coverage beyond its stated limits (see Topel v Reliastar Life Ins. Co. of N.Y., 6 AD3d 608; Randazzo v Gerber Life ...