Court Opinion

ID: 9639807
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:48:43.219437+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:23:06.622311
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WILBUR, Circuit Judge
(dissenting).
I dissent. For the reasons stated in my concurrence in New York Life Insur-*990anee Co. v. Waterman, 9 Cir., 104 F.2d 990, filed concurrently herewith, I am of opinion that under the statutory law of California (§ 1646 California Civil Code), the contract should be construed in accordance with the law of New York, the place of performance. Under the settled law of New York the incontestability clause does not apply to disability insurance. Steinberg v. New York Life Ins. Co., 263 N.Y. 45, 188 N.E. 152, 90 A.L.R. 642;. Guardian Life Ins. Co. v. Katz, 243 App. Div. 11, 275 N.Y.S. 743, affirmed, 269 N. Y. 625, 200 N.E. 29; Manhattan Life Ins. Co. v. Schwartz, 274 N.Y. 374, 9 N.E.2d 16; Chambers v. New York Life Ins. Co., 148 Misc. 561, 265 N.Y.S. 217.