United States Second Circuit

In a 28 U.S.C. section 1335 action to determine beneficiaries of insurance policies, default beneficiary provisions were not unenforceable under New York law, and the mistake of a single party as to a contract term does not justify reformation under New York law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/08/2003
• Published 01/10/2003

Judges

• Before:  LEVAL, SOTOMAYOR, Circuit Judges and KOELTL, District Judge.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Gary L. Rubin,Mazur, Carp & Rubin, P.C., New York, NY, for Defendant-Cross-Claimant-Appellant., Charles T. Locke, Locke & Herbert, New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Counter-Defendant-Appellee., Robert A. Cohen, Dechert Price & Rhoads, New York, N.Y. (Debra D. O'Gorman, on the brief), for Defendants-Cross-Defendants-Appellees.