Description: This section presents and summarizes insurance-related legal cases of 1953 including: 1. GROUP ANNUITY CONTRACTPERPETUAL OBLIGATION: Freeport Sulphur Company v. Aetna Life Insurance Company, 2. SERVICE OF PROCESSUNAUTHORIZED INSURER: Parmalee v. Iowa State Traveling Men's Association, 3. ORAL PLEDGE OR ASSIGNMENTCREDITOR'S RIGHT: Commercial National Bank v. Chapman, 4. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Weissman v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, 5. LIQUIDATION OF MUTUAL COMPANYJURISDICTION OF INSURANCE COMMISSlONER: Allyn v. Hull, 6. AVIATION EXCLUSIONPARACHUTE JUMP: Smith v. Mutual Benefit Health and Accident Association, 7. SETTLEMENT OPTIONTESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION: Hall v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 8. PURCHASE OF HOME OFFICE PROPERTYINSURANCE SUPERINTENDENT'S APPROVAL: Guardian Life Insurance Company vs. Bohlinger, 9. LOAN VALUE: DISABILITY AND DOUBLE INDEMNITY RESERVES: Chastang v. Mutual Life Insurance Company, 10. CONVERSION OF GROUP INSURANCESUICIDE: Lineberry v. Security Life and Trust Company, 11. DOUBLE INDEMNITYMILITARY EXCLUSION: Western Reserve Life Insurance Company vs. Meadows

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1958. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1958, Vol. 10, No. 28.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major life insurance-related legal cases from 1956, including claims issues, contract interpretation and misrepresentation by applicants.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1958.

Description: Topics and cases discussed include: Wissner v. Wissner, Faron v. Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company, Schiel v. New York Life, Dempsey v. National Life & Accident Insurance Company, Prudential Insurance Company v. Spain, McCann v. National Life and Accident Insurance Company, Fidelity Union Trust Company v. Phillips. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 2.

Description: This report looks at a number of court decisions related to insurance contract clauses summarizing the facts of the case and the outcome. Subjects included are the aviation exclusion, assignment of dividends, the incontestable clause, termination of disability benefits, binding receipts, policy assignment, and beneficiaries rights.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major life insurance-related legal cases from 1957.

Description: This article summarizes several legal suits that involve insurance issues including rulings related to tax liens against life insurance policies, the suicide provision, the incontestable clause, tax exempt interest earned by a life company, and the right of a health company not to contract with a hospital.

Description: Topics and cases discussed include: Pension Plan Tort Liability for Incomplete Information: Gediman v. Anheuser Busch Deposit with State Treasurer Liability for Release to Insurance Commissioner: Hometrust Life Insurance Company v. United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company.

Description: This section presents and summarizes major insurance-related legal cases of 1959. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1959, Vol. 11, No. 31.