Court Opinion

ID: 9742226
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 21:08:42.233143+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:24:29.743436
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HOFFMAN, Presiding Judge,
dissenting.
I would grant rehearing and affirm the trial court.
The trial court followed a Kentucky decision, National Life Ins. Co. v. Hood’s Admr. (1963) 264 Ky. 516, 94 S.W.2d 1022, and not the New York decision as relied upon by the majority.
The Kentucky decision reaches a more fair and equitable result and is based upon sounder reasoning.
The Insurance Company should not be entitled to a windfall since it retained the premiums and now refuses to carry out its part of the bargain.