Court Opinion

ID: 9474583
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 05:02:22.482855+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:44:11.865586
License: Public Domain

ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur fully in the court’s opinion, with one exception. I am not so clear that the government’s anti-estoppel rule is so out of line with the state cases as the opinion suggests. At least in Massachusetts, with*20out pursuing the matter in detail, a provision in the policy that only stated officers may waive the requirement for written proof of loss, may prevent “waiver or estoppel” by statements of other employees. Belbas v. New York Life Ins. Co., 300 Mass. 471, 475, 15 N.E.2d 806 (1938). This is the whole purpose of the anti-waiver provision. I agree, however, that we have here a matter of federal law, and with the court’s exposition and application.