Opinion ID: 450478
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Heading: Questions to be Certified to the Georgia Supreme Court

Text: 1. 11 Whether the policies issued by New York Life Insurance Company, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company and Delaware American International Life Insurance Company on the life of Kristofer L. Wood are contract[s] of group life insurance within the meaning of Ga.Code Ann. Sec. 33-24-6(a) and thus excepted from the requirement that the insured either sign the application for insurance or consent in writing to its issuance? 2. 12 Whether the two year time limit imposed by the policies' incontestability clauses in compliance with Ga.Code Ann. Sec. 33-27-3(a)(2) bars the insurance companies from now raising the defense that Kristofer neither signed the applications for insurance nor consented in writing to their issuance? 13 Our statement of these questions is not designed to limit the inquiry of the Supreme Court of Georgia. 14 [T]he particular phrasing used in the certified question is not to restrict the Supreme Court's consideration of the problems involved and the issues as the Supreme Court perceives them to be in its analysis of the record certified in this case. This latitude extends to the Supreme Court's restatement of the issue or issues and the manner in which the answers are to be given, whether as a comprehensive whole or in subordinate or even contingent parts. 15 Martinez v. Rodriquez, 394 F.2d 156, 159 n. 6 (5th Cir.1968). 16 The entire record in the case is transmitted herewith for any assistance it might provide to the Court in answering the certified questions. Pending the Georgia Supreme Court's answers to the foregoing certified questions, all further proceedings in this appeal are STAYED. 17 CERTIFIED.